Whoops, that's not what I meant at all. I really just wanted to avoid excluding Persians like Avicenna/Ibn Sina. I actually wasn't aware of al-Quff before this

Whoops, that's not what I meant at all. I really just wanted to avoid excluding Persians like Avicenna/Ibn Sina. I actually wasn't aware of al-Quff before this post, nor that he was a Christian before your comment. Goes to show I really have a lot of reading to catch up on.