Ibn Duraid
Ibn Duraid | |
|---|---|
| Born | Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azdī ibn Durayd 837/838 CE |
| Died | August 13, 933 CE Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Iraq) |
| Occupation(s) | Philologist, Lexicographer, Poet |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Abū Hātim as-Sijistāni, ar-Riāshi, Abd ar-Rahmān Ibn Abd Allah, Abū Othmān Saīd Ibn Hārūn al-Ushnāndāni, al-Tawwazī, al-Ziyādi |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Abbasid era |
| Notable works | Jamharat al-Lugha, Kitāb al-Ishtiqāq, al-Malāḥin |
| Influenced | Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī |
Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Duraid al-Azdī al-Baṣrī ad-Dawsī Al-Zahrani (أبو بكر محمد بن الحسن بن دريد بن عتاهية الأزدي البصري الدوسي الزهراني), or Ibn Duraid (إبن دريد) (c. 837-933 CE), a leading grammarian of Baṣrah, was described as "the most accomplished scholar, ablest philologer and first poet of the age", was from Baṣra in the Abbasid era. Ibn Duraid is best known today as the lexicographer of the influential dictionary, the Jamharat al-Lugha (جمهرة اللغة). The fame of this comprehensive dictionary of the Arabic language is second only to its predecessor, the Kitab al-'Ayn of al-Farahidi.