Ibn Malik

Imām
Ibn Mālik
Imām Ibn Mālik
ابن مالك
Title	Titles Jamāl al-Dīn; Abū ʿAbd Allāh; ;
Personal life
Born	1203 CE (600 AH); Jaén, Al-Andalus
Died	21 February 1274 (aged 70–71) / 12 Shaʿbān 672 AH; Damascus, Mamluk Syria
Resting place	al-Rawḍa, Damascus (near the grave of Ibn Qudāma)
Parent	ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad (father);
Main interest(s)	Arabic grammar; Linguistics; Qurʾānic recitation; Hadith;
Notable work(s)	Alfiyya of Ibn Malik; al-Kāfiya al-shāfiya; Tashīl al-fawāʾid wa-takmīl al-maqāṣid; Shawāhid al-tawḍīḥ; Lāmiyyat al-afʿāl;
Occupation	Grammarian; Philologist; Linguist; Teacher;
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni Islam
Jurisprudence	Shafi‘i
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Abū ʿAlī al-Shalubīn; Ibn al-Hajib; Ibn Yaʿīsh; ;
	Influenced Badr al-Din Ibn Malik; Ibn Jamāʿa; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Yūnīnī; Ibn al-Nahhas; Abū al-Thanaʾ al-Ḥalabī; ;
	Arabic name
Personal; (Ism)	Muḥammad; مُحَمَّد
Patronymic; (Nasab)	Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʾī al-Jayyānī; ٱبْن عَبْد ٱللَّه ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱبْن عَبْد ٱللَّه ٱبْن مَالِك ٱلطَّائِيّ ٱلْجَيَّانِيّ
Teknonymic; (Kunya)	Abū ʿAbd Allāh; أَبُو عَبْد ٱللَّه
Toponymic; (Nisba)	al-Ṭāʾī al-Jayyānī; ٱلطَّائِيّ ٱلْجَيَّانِيّ

Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʾī al-Jayyānī (600–672 AH / 1203–1274 CE), widely known as Ibn Mālik, was an Andalusian grammarian, philologist, and linguist. He is best remembered for his didactic poem the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik, which became one of the most studied works in the Arabic grammatical tradition.