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- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Overview
Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Bashshar al-Anbari was a traditionist and philologist who died in 304/916 or 305/917. 1
Works
He wrote a commentary on the Mufaddaliyyat, the anthology of early Arabic poems, which his son Muhammad revised. The commentary, with the text of the anthology, was edited by Charles James Lyall at Oxford in 1918-1921. The Fihrist, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and Ibn al-Qifti record him. 1
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 509
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad al-Anbari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-qasim-ibn-muhammad-al-anbari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.