Abu Ali al-Shalubin

أبو علي الشلوبين

1166 CE · 562 AH – 1247 CE · 645 AH

Seville

The Sevillian grammarian (b. 562, d. 645) — in his generation the science of Arabic terminated with him 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ajiba bint al-Baqdari · al-Sadid b. Makki al-Dimashqi · Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Shaykh · Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi · Ibn al-Khayr al-Azji

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Seville

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    Sunni (transmitted)

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    Overview

    Abu 'Ali al-Shalubini, the Andalusi grammarian of Seville — one of those to whom knowledge of Arabic came to an end in his time; born 562. 1

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    Seville

    People and things also explored

    The Almoravid seizure of Seville· The fall of Seville by treaty· Appearance of Majus ships in al-Andalus, 245· Majus landing at Seville, 230 AH· Ibn al-Dabbagh· ابن زهر الحفيد· Seville

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 241
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    The Almoravid seizure of Seville

    In 484 the Almoravids entered Seville; al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad charged them at the palace square, then yielded 'by my hand, not Amr's' — dragged to captivity and exiled to Aghmat, ending the sixty-year Abbadid kingdom, Andalus's most celebrated taifa.