Abu'l-Fadl al-Riashi

أبو الفضل الرياشي

Draft card for Abu'l-Fadl al-Abbas al-Riashi, the ninth-century linguist and muhaddith, d. 871; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Linguistics

The long-form text for this entry has not been written yet. The facts and connections below come from the museum's data.

People and things also explored

God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian· Kurdish

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.