Al-Tahir al-Khamiri

الطاهر الخميري

1899 CE · 1317 AH – 1973 CE · 1393 AH

Born in the Bab Suwayqa quarter of the old city of Tunis in 1899.

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Roles
writer · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Colonial Era
Region
Maghreb
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: al-Jundi Ali al-Sayyid · Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti · Tawfiq al-Hakim · al-Abyari, Ibrahim Isma'il · Ja'it Muhammad al-Aziz ibn Yusuf

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موجز

الطاهر الخميري (1899–1973م)، كاتب وعالم تونسي، ولد في حي باب سويقة بمدينة تونس العتيقة سنة 1899م 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-Tahir al-Khamiri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-tahir-al-khamiri/. 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.