Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- writer · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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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 Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ziyad ibn al-A'rabi, a Kufan philologist. His father Ziyad was a Sindhi slave belonging to Sulayman ibn Mujalid. 1
Dates
The encyclopaedia says he was born in 150 AH (767 CE) and died in 230 AH (845 CE). 1 These dates come from a single source, so they need 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 , p.156
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-A'rabi, Muhammad ibn Ziyad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-arabi-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.