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Ibn Alawiyya al-Hamadhani

الحسين بن أحمد ابن علوية

c. 980 CE · 370 AH

Abu Abdallah al-Husayn b. Ahmad al-Hamadhani, called Ibn Alawiyya (d. 370, Aleppo) — grammarian and philologist, author, shaykh of Aleppo, settled there from Baghdad; at Sayf al-Dawla's court he took a seat unbidden — 'for the standing man is told sit down, not the seated' — with famous set-tos against al-Mutanabbi in the same majlis 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 72-73
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