al-Maydani · Islam Museum

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Roles: writer · philologist
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi

Overview

Abu'l-Fadl Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Maydani of Nishapur, the littérateur; singled out for the company of Abu'l-Hasan al-Wahidi, author of the Tafsir — he mastered the art of Arabic, especially lexicon and the Arabs' proverbs; among his works the Kitab al-amthal named for him — nothing like it was ever made in its field — and al-Sami fi'l-asami; his son Abu Sa'd Sa'id b. Ahmad was likewise excellent, author of al-Asma fi'l-asma'; al-Maydani died in 539. ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

al-Nuwayri, Nihayat al-Arab fi Funun al-Adab, vol. 3 (scan)

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