al-Jundi Ali al-Sayyid

الجندي علي السيد

1898 CE · 1316 AH – 1973 CE · 1393 AH

Man of letters, poet and professor of Arabic literature, dean of Dar al-Ulum and member of the Arabic Language Academy; born 1316 AH (1898 CE), died 1393 AH (1973 CE).

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Roles
writer · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Modern Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti · Tawfiq al-Hakim · Al-Tahir al-Khamiri · Ja'it Muhammad al-Aziz ibn Yusuf · Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib

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موجز

علي السيد الجندي أديب وشاعر وأستاذ للأدب، عمل عميداً لدار العلوم وعضواً في مجمع اللغة العربية. ولد سنة 1316هـ (1898م) وتوفي سنة 1393هـ (1973م). 1

المكانة

يعدّه المصدر من أبرز أبناء جيله. 1

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People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· Salim ibn Umayr's mission to kill Abu Afak· Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf

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-Jundi Ali al-Sayyid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jundi-ali-al-sayyid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.