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سليان النهرواني اللغوي

سليان النهرواني اللغوي

c. 1099 CE · 493 AH

Saliyan b. Abd Allah al-Nahrawani, the grammarian-lexicographer — author of the ten-volume al-Qanun fi'l-lugha and a tafsir on which Isfahan's scholars were raised; father of al-Hasan mudarris of the Nizamiyya; died 493 1.

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Scholar
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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975100010251050107511001125115011751200 c. c. c. c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi

Summary

Sulayyan ibn 'Abd Allah ibn al-Fata, Abu 'Abd Allah al-Nahrawani, grammarian and philologist and author of compositions — among them the Qanun on language in ten volumes and a tafsir which the people of Isfahan transmitted. He related from Abu Talib ibn Ghaylan and others, and was father of al-Hasan, professor of the Nizamiyya. He died in 493. 1

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 399
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