Ibn Duraid

Ibn Duraid
Born
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azdī ibn Durayd

837/838 CE
Basra, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Iraq)
DiedAugust 13, 933 CE
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Iraq)
Occupation(s)Philologist, Lexicographer, Poet
Academic background
InfluencesAbū Hātim as-Sijistāni, ar-Riāshi, Abd ar-Rahmān Ibn Abd Allah, Abū Othmān Saīd Ibn Hārūn al-Ushnāndāni, al-Tawwazī, al-Ziyādi
Academic work
EraAbbasid era
Notable worksJamharat al-Lugha, Kitāb al-Ishtiqāq, al-Malāḥin
InfluencedAbū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī

Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Duraid al-Azdī al-Baṣrī ad-Dawsī Al-Zahrani (أبو بكر محمد بن الحسن بن دريد بن عتاهية الأزدي البصري الدوسي الزهراني), or Ibn Duraid (إبن دريد)[1] (c. 837-933 CE), a leading grammarian of Baṣrah, was described as "the most accomplished scholar, ablest philologer and first poet of the age",[2] was from Baṣra in the Abbasid era.[3][4] Ibn Duraid is best known today as the lexicographer of the influential dictionary, the Jamharat al-Lugha (جمهرة اللغة). The fame of this comprehensive dictionary of the Arabic language[5] is second only to its predecessor, the Kitab al-'Ayn of al-Farahidi.[6][7]

  1. ^ Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ibn Duraid" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 220.
  2. ^ Wafayat al-Ayan (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) by Ibn Khallikan
  3. ^ Robert Gleave, Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory, pg. 126. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780748625703
  4. ^ Abit Yaşar Koçak, Handbook of Arabic Dictionaries, pg. 23. Berlin: Verlag Hans Schiler, 2002. ISBN 9783899300215
  5. ^ Introduction to Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on Al-Khalīl Ibn Ahmad, pg. xii. Ed. Karin C. Ryding. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780878406630
  6. ^ John A. Haywood, "Arabic Lexicography." Taken from Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography, pg. 2,441. Ed. Franz Josef Hausmann. Volume 5 of Handbooks of Linguistics & Communication Science, #5/3. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. ISBN 9783110124217
  7. ^ A. Cilardo, "Preliminary Notes on the Meaning of the Qur'anic Term Kalala." Taken from Law, Christianity and Modernism in Islamic Society: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Congress of the Union Européenne Des Arabisants Et Islamisants Held at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, pg. 3. Peeters Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9789068319798