“abu isa al-warraq”

(“Abu ‘Isa al-Warraq”, full name Abu ‘Isa Muhammad ibn Harun al-Warraq (Arabic: أبو عيسى محمد ابن هارون الوراق‎‎ Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Warrāq, 889 – 24 June 994), was a 9th-century Arab skeptic scholar and critic of Islam and religion in general)

(he was a student of Ibn al-Sarrāj and Ibn Duraid and mentor and friend of scholar Ibn al-Rawandi in whose work The Book of the Emerald he appears)

(the modern scholar of the Qur’an and critic of Islam, Ibn Warraq, derives his pseudonymous name from “al-Warraq”)

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