al-Azdi, Abu Usama · Islam Museum

Depth

At a glance

Roles: Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli

Linguistics

Place in the story

ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Junada ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Harawi al-Azdi, Abu Usama, a philologist and grammarian from Herat. ¹

He died around 399 AH. ¹

People and things also explored

God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian· Kurdish

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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People

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God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.