al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī
Born	c.718 • Oman
Died	c.791 • Basra • Iraq
Notable Works	“Kitāb al-ʿayn”
Subjects Of Study	Arabic literature • prosody

Ibn Qutaybah

Muslim author

Buṭrus al-Bustānī

Lebanese scholar

Ibn Durayd

Arab philologist

al-Fīrūzābādī

Iranian lexicographer

al-Mubarrad

Arab grammarian

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Alexandre de Rhodes

French missionary

Adoniram Judson

American missionary

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

David Kimhi

European scholar

Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange

French scholar

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Serbian language scholar

Ibn Janāḥ

Spanish-Jewish grammarian

Sir George Abraham Grierson

Irish linguist

Hesychius of Alexandria

Greek lexicographer

Kazimieras Būga

Lithuanian linguist

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic linguist

Ivar Aasen

Norwegian scholar