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Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī

In spite of that al-Tawhidi tried hard to improve his status when he contacted some of the high-ranking statesmen, such as the viziers: Al-Muhallabi, Ibn al-'Amid, Sahib ibn 'Abbad and others, but it was disappointing every time, probably because of lack of luck.

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He was born in a poor family that works in the sale a sort of dates called Tawhid (hence his surname comes), and spent the rest of his childhood as an orphan in bail of his uncle which was always offending him.

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