- Ibn Duraid
Ibn Duraid ابن دريد الأزدي (Abu Bakr Mahommed ibn al-Hasan ibn Duraid al-Azdi) (837-934),
Arab poet andphilologist , was born atBasra of south Arabian stock. Here he was trained under various teachers, but fled in 871 toOman at the time Basra was attacked by theZanj , underMuhallabi .After living twelve years in
Oman he went toPersia , and, under the protection of the governor,`Abdallah ibn Mahommed ibn Mikal , and his son, Ismail, wrote his chief works. In 920 he went toBaghdad , where he received a pension from the "caliph "Moqtadir .The "Maqsurah", a poem praising Ibn Mikal and his son, has been edited by A. Haitsma (1773), E. Scheidius (1786), and N. Boyesen (1828). Various commentaries on the poem exist in manuscript (cf. C. Brockelmann, Gesch. der arab. lit., i. 211 ff., Weimar, 1898). The "Jamhara fi 'l-lugha" is a large
dictionary written in Persian (published in Hyderabad, India, 4 vol. 1926-30). Another work is the "Kitab ul-Ishtiqaq" ("Etymology "), edited byF. Wüstenfeld (Gottingen, 1854); it was written in opposition to the anti-Arabian party to show the etymological connection of the Arabian tribal names.ee also
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List of Arab scientists and scholars .References
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