ابن يعيش
ابن يعيش
Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Ya'ish the grammarian, Mosuli by origin, Aleppan by birth — who rode to Baghdad for Ibn al-Anbari only to meet news of his death at Mosul, and whose question on the i'rab of Hariri's Rahbiyya maqama stumped Taj al-Din al-Kindi at Damascus 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Muwaffaq al-Din Abu al-Baqa Ya'ish ibn Ali ibn Ya'ish al-Asadi, a grammarian known as Ibn al-Sa'igh. Of Mosul origin, he was born in Aleppo. 2
Learning
He studied grammar with Fityan al-Halabi and al-Maghribi al-Nirwazi. In the early part of his life he travelled from Aleppo to Baghdad to meet Ibn al-Anbari. When he reached Mosul he learned that Ibn al-Anbari had died, so he stayed there and then returned to Aleppo. 2
In Damascus
He met al-Kindi in Damascus, and asked him about the parsing of a passage that al-Hariri had mentioned in the Rahbiyya maqama. Ibn Khallikan says that the answer was obscure to al-Kindi. 2
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p. 46-47
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p.46-47
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