al-Ru'asi

أبو جعفر الرؤاسي

Draft card for Abu Ja'far Muhammad al-Ru'asi, the ninth-century Kufan grammarian, d. 802; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Linguistics

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God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian· Kurdish

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.