- 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 atKarazin near Shiraz (in modernIran ) and educated inShiraz ,Wasit ,Baghdad andDamascus .His Life
He lived in
Jerusalem for ten years and then travelled in westernAsia andEgypt , before settling inMecca in 1368. He remained there for the bulk of the next three decades, spending some time inDelhi in the 1380s, and finally leavingMecca in the mid-1390s to return toBaghdad , Shiraz (where he was received byTimur ), and finally travelling toTa'izz in modernYemen . In 1395, he was appointed chief "qadi " ("judge") ofYemen and married a daughter of thesultan .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 Spanishphilologist (d. 1066), and ofSajani (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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