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Abu Ali al-Farisi

أبو علي الفارسي النحوي

c. 987 CE · Rabi' I 377 AH

Abu Ali al-Farisi (d. Rabi I 377, aged 89) — Baghdad's great grammarian, rated by some above al-Mubarrad; hosted at Sayf al-Dawla's Aleppo court (with famous majlis set-tos against al-Mutanabbi) and later so honoured by Adud al-Dawla that the sultan called himself 'al-Farisi's pupil in grammar' — al-Idah and al-Takmila were written for him 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 88-89
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