In Arabic onomastics ("nisbah"), Al-Basri denotes a relationship to or from Basra and may refer to: Ibn Hisham (died 833), Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham ibn Ayyub al-Himyari al-Mu'afiri al-Baṣri, biographer of Muhammad Ibn al-Haytham ( 965–c. 1040), Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Hasan al-Basri (642–728), Muslim preacher, ascetic, theologian, exegete, scholar, judge, and mystic Rabiah al-Basri (c. 714–801), Muslim saint and Sufi mystic Saleem Al-Basri (1926–1997), Iraqi actor and comedian actress Abu al-Husayn al-Basri (died 1044), Mu'tazilite theologian and expert in Islamic jurisprudence Ammar al-Basri (died 845), East Syriac theologian and apologist. Al-Jahiz (776–c. 868), Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī