Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Bashār al-Anbārī () (885–940 AD), also known simply as Ibn al-Anbari (), was a well known
Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
philologist and grammarian of the
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (; ) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (566–653 CE), from whom the dynasty takes ...
.
Life
He was born in
Baghdad
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, where he spent most of his life. According to Hatim Salih al-Damin in his book ''al-Zāhir fī maʿānī kalimāt al-nās'' (), Ibn Al-Anbari received education from many teachers including his father
Abu Muhammad al-Anbari(d. 916/917),
Abu al-ʽAbbas Thaʽlab (d. 904) and
Ibn Duraid
Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Duraid al-Azdī al-Baṣrī ad-Dawsī Al-Zahrani (), or Ibn Duraid () (c. 837-933 CE), a leading grammarian of Baṣrah, was described as "the most accomplished scholar, ablest philologer and first poet of ...
(d. 953).
Works
Among his works are the following:
* ''Sharh al-Qasai'd al-Saba' al-Tiwal al-Jahiliyyat''
* ''Al Ha'at fi Kitab Allah''
See also
*
List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars
Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World, including Al-Andalus (Spain), who lived from Ancient history, antiquity up until the beginning of the Modern era, modern age, include the following. The list consists primarily of scholars durin ...
References
10th-century Arab people
10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
885 births
940 deaths
10th-century philologists
Scholars from the Abbasid Caliphate
Arab grammarians
Arab linguists
Medieval grammarians of Arabic
People from Baghdad
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