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- Original name:
- Abū Al-ʿabbās Muḥammad Ibn Yazīd
- Born:
- March 25, 826, Basra, Iraq
- Died:
- October 898, Baghdad (aged 72)
- Notable Works:
- “al-Kamil”
- Subjects Of Study:
- Arabic literature
- Arabic language
- grammar
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al-Mubarrad
Arab grammarian
Also known as: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yazīd
al-Mubarrad (born March 25, 826, Basra, Iraq—died October 898, Baghdad) was an Arab grammarian and literary scholar whose Al-Kāmil (“The Perfect One”) is a storehouse of linguistic knowledge.
After studying grammar in Basra, al-Mubarrad was called to the court of the ʿAbbāsid caliph al-Mutawakkil at Sāmarrāʾ in 860. When the caliph was killed in 861, al-Mubarrad went to Baghdad, remaining there most of his life as a teacher. In Al-Kāmil, al-Mubarrad gives excerpts from Arab poetry and proverbs and from Arab history and the Ḥadīth (traditions of the prophet Muḥammad) and subjects them to grammatical and literary scrutiny.
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