Al-Sam'ani casts down the staff of travel at Marw: teaching at the Amidiyya and composing, c. 552/1157

السمعاني يلقي عصا الترحال بمرو: التدريس بالعميدية والتصنيف، نحو ٥٥٢هـ/١١٥٧م

c. 1157 CE · c. 552 AH

Merv

Back at Marw, al-Sam'ani cast down the staff of travel and turned to composition, dictation, preaching and teaching; he taught at the Amidiyya madrasa — high-aspiring in the quest, a very fast writer, industrious, master of his hours — and his mu'jam grew to ten large volumes ¹. The unique manuscript of his Adab al-imla' wa-l-istimla' was copied at Marw in 546/1152 ².