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Zamakhshar

زمخشر

Zamakhshar: a small town of mediaeval Khwarazm lying between Nuzwar and Gurgandj (Jurjaniyya), the later capital of the province. Al-Muqaddasi records that in the later fourth/tenth century it had a citadel, a prison, a congregational mosque, walls with iron gates and a protective ditch with drawbridges raised at night. Its fame came from being the birthplace in 467/1075 of the Qur'an commentator and grammarian Abu al-Qasim Mahmud al-Zamakhshari 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia

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Zamakhshar: a small town of mediaeval Khwarazm lying between Nuzwar and Gurgandj (Jurjaniyya), the later capital of the province. Al-Muqaddasi records that in the later fourth/tenth century it had a citadel, a prison, a congregational mosque, walls with iron gates and a protective ditch with drawbridges raised at night. Its fame came from being the birthplace in 467/1075 of the Qur'an commentator and grammarian Abu al-Qasim Mahmud al-Zamakhshari 1.

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Birth of al-Zamakhshari at Zamakhshar, 467/1075

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الزمخشري· Birth of al-Zamakhshari at Zamakhshar, 467/1075

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 449
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الزمخشري

Mahmud b. 'Umar al-Zamakhshari, the uncontested imam of tafsir, hadith, grammar and bayan — openly Mu'tazili, announcing himself at doors as 'Abu l-Qasim the Mu'tazili'; 'Jar Allah' for his years at Mecca; he walked on a wooden socket after losing a leg, carrying written attestations so none would think it cut for crime, and told al-Damaghani the cause was his mother's curse over a tethered sparrow.