Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman

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Roles: Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: Abbasid Fragmentation
Region: Levant & Iraq
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Al-Abhari, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah

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ScholarTradition

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People and things also explored

Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada· Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi· Sidi ibn al-Mukhtar al-Abyiri

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada

A Basran grammarian of Khwarazmian origin and a pupil of Sibawayh. He is known as al-Awsat to distinguish him from other grammarians named al-Akhfash.