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Family: Knowledge: science, medicine, astronomy and the rest · 16 entries
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Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr
A philologist and transmitter credited with the vowel-pointing of the Qur'an and the founding of Arabic grammar. His lineage goes back to al-Du'al ibn Bakr ibn Kinana.Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
c. 718 CE · 100 AHOne of the greatest scholars of Arabic, of the Azd of Oman, raised in Basra. He is likely the originator of many of the scientific concepts and methods of Arabic grammar and linguistic analysis.Ibn al-A'rabi, Muhammad ibn Ziyad
767 CE · 150 AHA Kufan philologist. His father Ziyad was a Sindhi slave of Sulayman ibn Mujalid.Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya
815 CE · 200 AHA Kufan philologist and grammarian, a client of the Banu Shayban. Many sayings on grammar are transmitted from him.Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada
A Basran grammarian of Khwarazmian origin and a pupil of Sibawayh. He is known as al-Awsat to distinguish him from other grammarians named al-Akhfash.Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman
849 CE · 235 AHA Baghdadi grammarian known as al-Akhfash al-Asghar, to distinguish him from other grammarians who bore the name.Al-Azhari, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
A lexicographer and man of letters from Herat, a Shafi'i. He studied jurisprudence first, then became known for the Arabic language; his best-known work is Tahdhib al-Lugha.Tamam ibn Ghalib
An Andalusian philologist from Cordoba and Murcia. His nisba al-Tayyani may suggest a seller of tayyani cloth.Al-Ansari al-Saraqusti, Isma'il ibn Khalaf
A reciter, grammarian and man of letters from Zaragoza in al-Andalus, who moved to Egypt and settled there.Al-Anbari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad
1119 CE · 513 AHA scholar from al-Anbar on the Euphrates, known as Kamal al-Din. He died in 577 AH.Ibn Abi al-Ahwas, al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Aziz
1206 CE · 603 AHA reciter, Qur'an commentator, hadith scholar and Arabic grammarian. Born in Jaen and settled in Granada; known as Ibn al-Nazir.Al-Balawi, Ahmad ibn Ali
1462 CE · 866 AHA philologist, man of letters and poet from Wadi Ash, linked to the tribe of Bali.Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi
1621 CE · 1030 AHBorn in Baghdad, he was drawn to literature and the study of Arabic from childhood. He wrote Khizanat al-Adab.Sidi ibn al-Mukhtar al-Abyiri
c. 1760 CE · c. 1173 AH†A Mauritanian scholar from a learned family, born near Btalmit. He studied the Qur'an, grammar, rhetoric, logic and creed, then travelled widely in pursuit of learning.Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali
1903 CE · 1321 AHA scholar of jurisprudence and inheritance law, philologist and prolific writer, with wide knowledge of the history of Yemen in the Islamic period.Munir al-Baalbaki
1918 CE · 1337 AHFrom a prominent Beirut family, and one of the best-known Arabic lexicographers of the twentieth century.
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