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.

Al-Ṭuwāl (الطُّوال)
The Grammarian (النحوّى)
Born
Other namesMuḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ṭuwal the Grammarian
OccupationProfessor of philology
Years activeAbbāsid Era
Known forArabic language grammatical analysis
TitleAl-Ṭuwāl the Grammarian
Academic background
InfluencesAl-Kisā’ī and Al-Aṣma’ī
Academic work
DisciplineArabic philology
Sub-disciplineLinguistic analysis
School or traditionGrammarians of Kufa

Life

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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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Notes

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Nadīm (al) 1970, p. 79, 80-2.
  2. ^ Nadīm (al) 1970, p. 149.
  3. ^ Flügel 1872, p. 653.
  4. ^ Suyūṭī 1909, p. 50, I.
  5. ^ Zubaydī (al-) 1954, p. 151, note.

Bibliography

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  • Nadīm (al), Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq (1970). Dodge, Bayard (ed.). The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. New York & London: Columbia University Press.
  • Flügel, Gustav Leberecht (1872). J. Roediger; A. Mueller (eds.). Al-Fihrist (in Arabic). Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel. p. 653.
  • Suyūṭī, Jalāl al-Dīn ‘Abd Al-Raḥmān (1909). Khānjī, Muḥammad Amīn (ed.). Bughyat al-Wu'āt fī Ṭabaqāt al-Lughawīyīn wa-al-Nuḥāh (in Arabic). Vol. 1. Cairo: Sa’ādah Press. p. 50.
  • Zubaydī (al-), Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan (1954). Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (ed.). Ṭabaqāt al-Naḥwīyīn wa-al-Lughawīyīn (in Arabic). Cairo: al-Khanjī. p. 151, note.