Abu'l-'Abbas al-Nashi'

أبو العباس الناشئ

The Anbari secretary — critic of al-Khalil's prosody, author of a four-thousand-line nuniyya on the sects, dead in Egypt 293 1.

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Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Nashi', the scribe of Anbar. He wrote a book against al-Khalil ibn Ahmad in which he mentioned kinds in which al-Khalil departed from the tradition of the Arabs, according to al-Mas'udi's description. 1

He has an ode in the letter "nun" of some four thousand verses with a single rhyme, in which he mentions the people of opinions, sects and schools, and works on various sciences. 1

He travelled from Iraq to Egypt and died there in 293 AH. 1

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  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 433
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