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Also Known As Abū Bishr ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān
Born 760? • Al-Bayḍāʾ
Died 793? • Shīrāz
Notable Works “al-Kitāb fī an-naḥw”
Subjects Of Study Arabic language • grammar
Sermon being preached from a minbar, miniature from the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, 1223; in the National Library, Paris (MS Arabe 6094, fol. 93).
al-Ḥarīrī
Islamic scholar
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Joseph Kimhi
European grammarian
al-Mubarrad
Arab grammarian
Lindley Murray
American grammarian
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Bernard de Chartres
French philosopher
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
Bello, detail of an oil painting by Raymond-Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin, c. 1845; in the Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas
Andrés Bello
Venezuelan-born Chilean poet and scholar
Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
St. José de Anchieta
St. José de Anchieta
Portuguese author and scholar
Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
David Kimhi
European scholar
Ḥisdai ibn Shaprut
Spanish-Jewish physician and writer