Ibn al-Dahan

ابن الدهان النحوي

c. 1173 CE · 569 AH – 1219 CE · 616 AH

Ibn al-Dahan (c. 569–616) — Baghdad's chief grammarian, later of Mosul; his 43-volume sharh of al-Idah wa-l-Takmil and seven-volume Zahr al-Riyad crown an enormous output 1.

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philologist
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abdallah al-Yunini · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa · Abu Ali al-Shalubin

Summary

Abu Muhammad Sa'id b. al-Mubarak b. 'Ali b. 'Abdallah, known as Ibn al-Dahan the Baghdadi grammarian; he heard hadith from Abu'l-Qasim Hibat Allah b. al-Husayn and Abu Ghalib Ahmad b. al-Hasan b. al-Minhal — the imam of his age in grammar. 1

Works

His works: a commentary on al-Idah wa'l-takmil in forty-three volumes, the Fusul al-kubra and Fusul al-sughra, his commentary on Ibn Jinni's al-Luma' called al-Ghurra, al-'Arud, al-Durus fi'l-nahw, al-Risala al-Sa'idiyya on kalam principles, and Zad al-ma'askar wa-zahr al-riyad in seven volumes. 1

Sources

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