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- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
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- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Nasr Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari al-Farabi, a philologist from Farab in Turkistan. The source says that the reason for his being called al-Jawhari is not known, and that he died around 398 AH (1008 CE). 1
What the sources do not give here
The data of this page give no details of his 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-Jawhari Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jawhari-abu-nasr-ismail-ibn-hammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.