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Also Known As Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azdī ibn Durayd
Born 837 or 838 • Basra • Iraq
Died August 13, 933 • Baghdad • Iraq
Subjects Of Study Arabic language
Ibn Qutaybah
Muslim author
Buṭrus al-Bustānī
Lebanese scholar
al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad
Arab philologist
al-Fīrūzābādī
Iranian lexicographer
al-Mubarrad
Arab grammarian
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary
Reuchlin, Johannes
Johannes Reuchlin
German humanist
David Kimhi
European scholar
Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Serbian language scholar
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
Sir George Abraham Grierson
Irish linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Hesychius of Alexandria
Greek lexicographer
Palmer, E.H.: The Desert of the Exodus
E.H. Palmer
British linguist
Kazimieras Būga
Lithuanian linguist