Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Tamam ibn Ghalib ibn Umar al-Qurtubi al-Mursi, Abu Ghalib, an Andalusian philologist from Cordoba and Murcia, who died in the year 433 AH (1041 CE) 1.
His nisba
The encyclopedia says that his nisba to "al-Tiyani" indicates a seller of tiyani 1.
His works and the details of his life need an additional source. The date of death rests on a single source.
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
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Tamam ibn Ghalib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/tamam-ibn-ghalib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.