Al-Sukkari

السكري

c. 890 CE · 275 AH

Al-Sukkari — the grammarian; author of al-Mukhtalif wa-l-Mu'talif, the book of proverbs and judgments, and al-Zawajir 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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7758008258508759009259509751000 c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Umayyad amir of Cordova) · Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu al-Ayna · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani

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Al-Hasan b. Sa'id al-Sukkari, the celebrated grammarian; he took from the imams of language and authored Kitab al-Mukhtalif wa'l-Mu'talif, Kitab al-Hikam wa'l-Amthal, Kitab al-Zawajir and others 1.

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