أبو سعيد السيرافي

أبو سعيد السيرافي

Baghdad

Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi — the celebrated grammarian whose commentary on Sibawayh's Kitab revealed things no one else in the field had seen, and whose al-Iqna' was completed by his son Abu Muhammad; his Baghdad majlis drew even the keeper of Dar al-'Ilm's library 1.

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Roles
grammarian · lexicographer
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Baghdad

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موجز

أبو سعيد الحسن بن عبد الله بن المرزبان السيرافي نحوي لغوي مشهور، عاش في بغداد 2.

مؤلفاته

شرح كتاب سيبويه، وقال ابن خلكان إنه ظهر له بالبحث ما لم يظهر لغيره. ثم صنف «الإقناع»، ومات قبل إتمامه فأكمله ابنه أبو محمد يوسف 2.

مجلسه

كان له ببغداد مجلس يقرأ فيه العلماء عليه، وكان من جلسائه خازن دار العلم عبد السلام البصري 2.

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Lived in
Baghdad
Parent of
يوسف السيرافي

People and things also explored

The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· فتنة الشيعة والسنة بباب الطاق سنة 348· دخول بني بويه بغداد وتلقيبهم سنة 334· The Aman of Samalu and its People's Transfer to Baghdad· The Conquest of al-Anbar and the Raid on Baghdad's Market· The Founding of Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad)· إقامة البريد من الحجاز إلى العراق

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p. 72-73
  2. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p.72-73
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islam.museum contributors. “أبو سعيد السيرافي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sirafi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad

The Nizamiyya of Baghdad, first and most famous of the madrasas founded by the vizier Nizam al-Mulk al-Tusi: building began in 457 and sisters rose at Nishapur, Isfahan, Herat, Basra, Mosul and Amid; the Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni then Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi taught in it, and it mothered the Sunni institutional model that the later madrasas of Baghdad followed — the caliphs prayed there and Nizam al-Mulk himself visited to inspect its library.