Sibawayh
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title:
Sibawayh
text:
Sibawayh, whose full name is Abu Bishr Amr ibn Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Basri, was a Persian leading grammarian of Basra and author of the earliest book on Arabic grammar. His famous unnamed work, referred to as Al-Kitāb, or "The Book", is a five-volume seminal discussion of the Arabic language. Ibn Qutaybah, the earliest extant source, in his biographical entry under Sibawayh simply wrote:
He is Amr ibn Uthman, and he was mainly a grammarian. He arrived in Baghdad, fell out with the local grammaria
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description:
Persian grammarian from Basra (c.760–796)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibawayh
date created:
2004-08-18T16:45:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T03:22:20Z
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