Ibn Faris
Ibn Faris | |
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| أبو الحسين أحمد بن فارس بن زكريا الرازي | |
| Born | Not recognized as a date. Years must have 4 digits (use leading zeros for years < 1000). |
| Died | 1004 Ray (near modern Tehran, Iran) |
| Movement | Early philological school; method of isytiqq (derivation of word roots) |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al‑Farāhīdī |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Main interests | Arabic lexicography, philology, grammar, poetry, literature, hadith, jurisprudence |
| Notable works | Mujmal fi al-Lugha, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, Al‑Ṣāḥibī fī fiqh al‑lugha, Dhamm al‑khata’ fī al‑shi‘r |
| Influenced | Al‑Fīrūzābādī |
Ibn Faris (Arabic: أبو الحسين أحمد بن فارس بن زكريا بن محمد بن حبيب الرازي, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Fāris ibn Zakariyyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Rāzī, died Ray, Iran 395/1004) was a Persian linguist, scribe, scholar, philologist and lexicographer, As well as bearing the epithet al-Rāzī ('meaning 'from Ray'), ibn Fāris was also known variously by the epithets al-Shāfiʿī, al-Mālikī, al-lughawī ('the linguist'), al-naḥwī ('the grammarian'), al-Qazwīnī ('from Qazvin') and (possibly inaccurately) al-Zahrāwī ('from al-Zahrāʾ'). He is noted for compiling two of the early dictionaries to organise words alphabetically rather than according to the word's rhyming pattern. He was primarily associated with Ray. Initially, he was an adherent of the Shafi'i madhhab, but later switched to the Maliki.