Life
Ebn Meskavayh was a prominent figure in the intellectual and cultural life of his time. Miskawayh may have been a Mazdaean convert to Islam, but it seems more likely that it was one of his ancestors who converted He was fluent enough in Middle Persian to have translated some pre-Islamic texts in that language into Arabic. He worked as a secretary and librarian for a sequence of viziers, including Adud al-Dawla. Some contemporary sources associated him with the Brethren of Purity, claiming that some of his writings were used in the compilation of the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity.
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