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Al-Tuwal

9th century Iraqi philologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Al-Ṭuwāl the Grammarian (الطُّوال النحوّى), surnamed Abū ‘Abd Allāh (أبوعبد الله), or Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh (محمد بن أحمد بن عبد الله). Al-Ṭuwal the Grammarian was a ninth-century philologist of the School of Kūfah.

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Life

He was a disciple of al-Kisā’ī and attended the lectures of al-Aṣma’ī. He moved to Baghdād where Abū 'Umar al-Durī al-Muqrī (أبو عمرو الدّورىّ المقرئ)[n 1] was his disciple ('hearer'). Abū al-Abbās Tha’lab (أبو العباس ثعلب) said he was a skillful analyst[n 2] of Arabic grammar. No books of his are known. He died in 857-858 (243 AH). [2][3][4][5]

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  1. Abū ‘Umar ‘Umar Hafṣ ibn al-Aziz ibn Suhbān (768 - 861) came from the Dūr Quarter on the East Bank of Baghdād and was a popular teacher at Sāmarrā. Cf. Ibn Khallikān, Wafayat , p.401, n.1.[1]
  2. bi-ilqā’ (بإلقاء) is translated as “analyzing” but is omitted in Flügel text of Al-Fihrist.

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