Fairuzabadi

Fairuzabadi

Abu-t-Tahir Ibn Ibrahim Majd ud-Din ul-Fairuzabadi,(also known as El-Firuz Abadi or al-Firuzabadi) (1329-1414) was an Arab lexicographer born at Karazin near Shiraz (in modern Iran) and educated in Shiraz, Wasit, Baghdad and Damascus.

His Life

He lived in Jerusalem for ten years and then travelled in western Asia and Egypt, before settling in Mecca in 1368. He remained there for the bulk of the next three decades, spending some time in Delhi in the 1380s, and finally leaving Mecca in the mid-1390s to return to Baghdad, Shiraz (where he was received by Timur), and finally travelling to Ta'izz in modern Yemen. In 1395, he was appointed chief "qadi" ("judge") of Yemen and married a daughter of the sultan.

During the later years of his life, Fairuzabadi converted his house at Mecca into a school of Maliki law and established three teachers in it. He also wrote a huge lexicographical work uniting the dictionaries of Ibn Sida, a Spanish philologist (d. 1066), and of Sajani (d. 1252).

His works

An abridgement of this last work was published as "Al-Qamus Al-Muhit" (قاموس المحيط) ("Comprehensive Dictionary") and has over the centuries itself served as the basis of some later dictionaries.

ee also

*Al-Qamus Al-Muhit
*Al-Qamus

References

*1911


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