al-Azdi, Abu Usama · Islam Museum

Depth

At a glance

Roles: Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · عبد الله بن ياسين الجزولي · Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi · أبو العلاء المعري

Linguistics

Place in the story

ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Junada ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Harawi al-Azdi, Abu Usama, a philologist and grammarian from Herat. ¹

He died around 399 AH. ¹

People and things also explored

Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· Ahmad Abd al-Sattar al-Jawari· Ahmad al-Hamlawi· Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya· al-Akhfash al-Akbar· Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman· Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi

Born in Baghdad, he was drawn to literature and the study of Arabic from childhood. He wrote Khizanat al-Adab.