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Also Known As Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yazīd
Born March 25, 826 • Basra • Iraq
Died October 898 (aged 72) • Baghdad • Iraq
Notable Works “al-Kamil”
Subjects Of Study Arabic literature • Arabic language • grammar
Scholars at an Abbasid library in Baghdad
al-Ḥarīrī
Islamic scholar
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Ibn Qutaybah
Muslim author
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Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
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Ibn Durayd
Arab philologist
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al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad
Arab philologist
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Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
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Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
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Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
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Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
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David Kimhi
European scholar
August Schleicher
August Schleicher
German linguist
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George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
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Profiat Duran
Spanish philosopher
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Bar Hebraeus
Syrian philosopher
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Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
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Antoine Meillet
French linguist
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S.E.K. Mqhayi
South African poet and novelist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
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Dunash Ben Labrat
Hebrew poet