Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Umar Salih ibn Ishaq al-Jarmi al-Basri, a philologist and grammarian, client of the Banu Jarm ibn Zaban. The source counts him among the leading grammarians of Basra. He died in 225 AH (840 CE). 1
What the sources do not give here
The data of this page give no details of his teachers, pupils or works. It needs an additional source.
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Jarmi, Salih ibn Ishaq”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jarmi-salih-ibn-ishaq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.