Ibn Zubraj al-Utabi · Islam Museum

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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: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi · Ibn al-Manda'i al-Wasiti · Ibn al-Sawwadi · al-Azdi al-Qurtubi

Summary

Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Zubraj the grammarian, known as al-'Utabi for the 'Utaba quarter of west Baghdad; versed in grammar, philology and the arts of adab; his hand was a fine, correct script that men of learning competed over — any book in his hand was sought after; he read adab under the sharif Abu'l-Sa'adat Ibn al-Shajari and Abu Mansur Mawhub ibn al-Jawaliqi, heard hadith from the shaykhs of his time and wrote much. ¹

Sources

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

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