Abū l-Fatḥ ʿUthmān ibn Jinnī, best known as Ibn Jinnī (), was a specialist on

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grammar, a philologist, and a philosopher of language. He was born in

Mosul Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second larg ...

to a

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Christian slave of a certain Sulayman ibn Fahd ibn Ahmad al-Azdi.

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10th-century philologists 10th-century philosophers Arab people of Greek descent People from Mosul Philologists Linguists Year of birth uncertain 1002 deaths People of the Hamdanid emirate of Aleppo Medieval grammarians of Arabic Mu'tazilites {{Greece-bio-stub