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Ibn Malik
Ibn Mālik | |
|---|---|
ابن مالك | |
| Born | 1203-4 or 1204-5[1] |
| Died | 21 February 1274 (aged 70)[2] |
| Occupation | Arab grammarian |
Abu 'Abd Allāh Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Mālik al-Tā'i al-Jayyāni (Arabic: ابو عبدالله جمال الدين محمد بن عبدالله بن محمد بن عبدالله بن مالك الطائي الجياني النحوي) (c. 600 AH – 672 AH / 1203-4 or 1204-5 – 21 February 1274) was an Arab grammarian born in Jaén. After leaving al-Andalus for the Near East, and taught Arabic language and literature in Aleppo and Hamāt, before eventually settled in Damascus, where he began the most productive period of his life. He was a senior master at the Adiliyya Madrasa. His reputation in Arabic literature was cemented by his al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya (known also as simply Alfiya), a versification of Arabic grammar, for which at least 43 commentaries have been written.
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, Vol. I, p. 681, Edition Lahore, 1964
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Islam Brill Publishers, Vol. I, p. 681, Edition Lahore, 1964
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