Abu al-ʽAbbās Thaʽlab
Abū al-ʽAbbās Thaʽlab (ابو العباس ثعلب) The Grammarian (النحوي) | |
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| Abū al-ʽAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zayd ibn Zaiyar Thaʽlab | |
| Born | 815 October Baghdād, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Died | 2 April 904 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | Caliphate |
| Other names | Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zayd ibn Sayyar Abū al-ʽAbbās Thaʽlab (احمد بن يحيى بن زيد بن سيار ابو العباس ثعلب) and Abū al-ʽAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā Thaʽlab |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar of philology and educator |
| Years active | Abbāsid Era |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Al-Farraʽ, Al-Kisāʽī and Ibn al-Aʽrābī. |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | Grammarians of Kufa |
| Main interests | Philology, Grammar, Lexicography, etc. |
| Influenced | Al-Akhfash al-Aṣghar, Abū Bakr ibn al-Anbārī and Ghulām Thaʽlab |
Thaʽlab (ثعلب), whose kunya was Abū al-ʽAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā (ابو العباس احمد بن يحيى) (815 – 904) was a renowned authority on grammar, a muhaddith (traditionist), a reciter of poetry, and first scholar of the school of al-Kūfah, and later at Baghdād. He was a keen rival of Al-Mubarrad, the head of the school of al-Baṣrah. Thaʽlab supplied much biographic detail about his contemporary philologists found in the biographical dictionaries produced by later biographers.