• recited by the rāwī. The compositions of famous poets were collected, arranged, and committed to writing. The grammarians of al-Baṣrah and al-Kūfah collected...
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    Golden Age it was home to the grammarians of Kufa. Kufic script is named for the city. After the Arabian hegemony and the fall of Persian Empire, and its geographic...
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  • and 14th century school of philosophy Grammarians of Basra, scholars of Arabic Grammarians of Kufa, scholars of Arabic Grammaticus, a name used by several...
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  • Abu Hanifa Dinawari (category Grammarians of Kufa)
    or second decade of the 9th-century. He was instructed in the two main traditions of the Abbasid-era grammarians of al-Baṣrah and of al-Kūfah. His principal...
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  • Al-Farra' (category Grammarians of Kufa)
    called Farrā’ because he was 'free to speak'. He knew the grammarians of al-Kūfah after the time of al-Kisā’ī's, whom he adopted. The Kūfans claimed that...
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  • Al-Kisa'i (category Grammarians of Kufa)
    It is her, still a point of contention today. Hishām ibn Mu'āwīyah al-Darīr (d.824) a grammarian and Qur'ānic reciter of Kufa who was blind. See Ibn Khallikan...
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  • Al-Tuwal (category Grammarians of Kufa)
    Al-Ṭuwal the Grammarian was a ninth-century philologist of the School of Kūfah. He was a disciple of al-Kisā’ī and attended the lectures of al-Aṣma’ī. He...
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  • Ibn al-A'rabi (category Grammarians of Kufa)
    genealogist, and oral traditionist of Arabic tribal poetry. A grammarian of the school of al-Kūfah, who rivalled the grammarians of al-Baṣrah in poetry recital...
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  • Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid (category 10th-century Muslim scholars of Islam)
    Readers and Grammarians of the Baṣran Tradition (Part II) / تطور الدراسات اللغوية بين القراء والنحاة البصريين (القسم الثاني)". Journal of Qur'anic Studies...
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  • Yaqub Ibn as-Sikkit (category Grammarians of Kufa)
    the son of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil and a great grammarian and scholar of poetry of the al-Kūfah school. He was punished on the orders of the caliph...
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  • Abu al-ʽAbbās Thaʽlab (category Grammarians of Kufa)
    ʽUbaydah, al-Aṣmaʽī, Al-Athram, Grammarians of Kufa - al-Ruʽāsī, Al-Zajjāj who wrote the commentary of the Compendium of Speech. Abū al-ʽAbbās Thaʽlab dictated...
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    have said that the earliest grammarian would have been Ibn Abi Ishaq (died AD 735/6, AH 117). The schools of Basra and Kufa further developed grammatical...
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    is Amr ibn Uthman, and he was mainly a grammarian. He arrived in Baghdad, fell out with the local grammarians, was humiliated, went back to some town...
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    Abu Hanifa (category People from Kufa)
    Bangladesh, India, and some parts of the Arab world. Born to a Muslim family in Kufa, Abu Hanifa traveled to the Hejaz region of Arabia in his youth, where he...
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  • The first Grammarians of Baṣra lived during the seventh century in Al-Baṣrah. The town, which developed out of a military encampment, with buildings being...
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    Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (category Generals of the Umayyad Caliphate)
    expelled non-Arab, Muslim converts from the garrison cities of Kufa and Basra to their villages of origin and collected from them the jizya (poll tax) nominally...
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    of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first imam of Shia Islam and fourth caliph of Sunni Islam who moved the capital of the early caliphate from Medina to Kufa (or...
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    Al-Mutanabbi (category People from Kufa)
    c. 915 – 23 September 965 AD) from Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate, was a famous Abbasid-era Arabian poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo...
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    Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (category Rashidun governors of Kufa)
    of Kufa and served as its governor under Umar ibn al-Khattab. He played a leading role in the Muslim conquest of Persia and was a close companion of the...
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  • Ibn Abi Ishaq (category Medieval grammarians of Arabic)
    core of the late division of Arabic grammar into the schools of Kufa and Basra. Ibn Abi Ishaq was said to be more proficient with the rules of grammar...
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    Muhammad al-Shaybani (category Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam)
    al-Ḥasan was born in Wāsiṭ, Iraq, in 750; soon, however, he moved to Kufa, the home town of Abū Ḥanīfa, and grew there. Though he was born to a soldier, he...
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  • walnuts back to Kufa. He was persian. His style of recitation was traditionally one of three preferred in the historic city of Kufa, his hometown. Az-Zaiyyat...
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    of abu, abi - father of, the one with Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Ali (601, Mecca – 661, Kufa ), Arabic grammarian...
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  • Ibn Adjurrum (category Medieval grammarians of Arabic)
    over 60 commentaries by later grammarians have been produced. Known in Europe from the 16th century, the Muqaddima was one of the first treatises available...
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  • 813 until 833 Abu al-ʽAbbās Thaʽlab (815–904), Arabic grammarian and founder of the school of Kufa Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad, better known as al-Farghani...
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  • Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani (category Medieval grammarians of Arabic)
    His father had been a traveller and had visited Kufa, Baghdad, Basra, Oman and Egypt. At around the age of seven, al-Marashi started to talk about his desire...
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    identified themselves with the Ẓāhirī school of thought. During his formative years, al-Ẓāhirī relocated from Kufa to Baghdad and studied the prophetic traditions...
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    al-Hasan. However, the Kufa camp of classical grammar, as well as many modern grammarians, allow al- to be prefixed to the object of vocation almost unconditionally...
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  • Qira'at (category Reading of religious texts)
    Makkah, Madina, Kufa, Basra, and greater Syria (al-Sham). They attracted students from all over the expanding Muslim state and their modes of recitations...
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    Al-Kindi (category People from Kufa)
    Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy". Al-Kindi was born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad...
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