Sībawayh: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Abū Bishr ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān
Born	760? • Al-Bayḍāʾ
Died	793? • Shiraz
Notable Works	“al-Kitāb fī an-naḥw”
Subjects Of Study	Arabic language • grammar

Scholars at an Abbasid library in Baghdad

al-Ḥarīrī

Islamic scholar

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Sir William Jones

British orientalist and jurist

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Joseph Kimhi

European grammarian

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al-Mubarrad

Arab grammarian

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Lindley Murray

American grammarian

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Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu

Romanian author

ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock

ʿAbd al-Malik

Umayyad caliph

Lomonosov, Mikhail

Mikhail Lomonosov

Russian author and scientist

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Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

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Saʿadia ben Joseph

Jewish exegete and philosopher

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Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

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Bernard de Chartres

French philosopher

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Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī

Persian scholar

Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen

Danish linguist

Bello, detail of an oil painting by Raymond-Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin, c. 1845; in the Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas

Andrés Bello

poet and scholar

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Julius Caesar Scaliger

French scholar

St. José de Anchieta

St. José de Anchieta

Portuguese author and scholar

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Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

Jewish physician and translator

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David Kimhi

European scholar

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Ḥisdai ibn Shaprut

Spanish-Jewish physician and writer