al-Jawhari Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad

الجوهري أبو نصر إسماعيل بن حماد

c. 1008 CE · 398 AH

Philologist from Farab in Turkestan, whose nisba al-Jawhari has no known explanation; died about 398 AH (1008 CE).

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · عبد الله بن ياسين الجزولي · Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi · أبو العلاء المعري

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موجز

أبو نصر إسماعيل بن حماد الجوهري الفارابي لغوي من فاراب في تركستان. يذكر المصدر أن سبب تسميته بالجوهري غير معروف، وأنه توفي نحو سنة 398هـ (1008م). 1

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People and things also explored

Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· Ahmad Abd al-Sattar al-Jawari· Ahmad al-Hamlawi· Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya· al-Akhfash al-Akbar· Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman· Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Jawhari Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jawhari-abu-nasr-ismail-ibn-hammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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