Ibn Sidah

Ibn Sidah
ابن سيده
Personal
Born1007
Murcia, Caliphate of Córdoba, Andalusia, now Spain
Died26 March 1066 (25 RabīʿII 458), aged 59
Dénia, Taifa of Dénia
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
RegionIberian Peninsula
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceMaliki
CreedAsh'ari[1]
Notable work(s)Al-Muḥkam wa-al-muḥīt al-aʻẓam
OccupationScholar, lexicographer, linguist, philologist, logician
Muslim leader
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Abū’l-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl (أبو الحسن على بن اسماعيل), known as Ibn Sīdah (ابن سيده), or Ibn Sīdah'l-Mursī (ابن سيده المرسي), (c.1007-1066), was a linguist, philologist and lexicographer of Classical Arabic from Andalusia. He compiled the encyclopedia al-Kitāb al-Mukhaṣṣaṣ (المخصص) (Book of Customs) and the Arabic language dictionary Al-Muḥkam wa-al-muḥīt al-aʻẓam [2] (المحكم والمحيط الأعظم) (The Great and Comprehensive Arbiter". His contributions to the sciences of language, literature and logic were considerable.

  1. ^ "Ahl al-Sunna: The Ash'aris - The Testimony and Proofs of the Scholars". almostaneer.com (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 28 January 2021.
  2. ^ Ibn Sidah. ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl Hindāwī ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ed.). Al-Muḥkam Wa-Al-Muḥīṭ Al-Aʻẓam. Al-Ṭabʻah 1 ed (in Arabic). Beirut: Manshūrāt Muḥammad ʻAlī Bayḍūn }. Searchable online