Ibn al-Ajdābī

Ibn al-Ajdābī ( _ar. أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن إسماعيل بن أحمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الأجدابي الطرابلسي, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm ibn Ismā'īl ibn Ahmad ibn Abdallāh al-Lawātī al-Ajdābī al-Tarāblisī) died after c. 1077 A.D. (456 A.H.) was a prominent Libyan scholar and linguist. His fields of expertise covered Islamic jurisprudence, kalam, Arabic language and astronomy. He lived all his life in Tripoli and died and was buried there. He studied under Libyan scholars of his time and was famous for being interested in meeting those who traveled through Tripoli from the Mashriq and the Maghrib and acquiring wider knowledge from them. It is said that when he was asked about how he acquired all this knowledge, he replied, "I acquired it from the Huwwāra and Znāta gates," [ [http://www.arab-ency.com/index.php?module=pnEncyclopedia&func=display_term&id=1484 Arab Encyclopedia] ar icon] which refers to the names of two main gates to Tripoli, named after two Berber tribes.

Bibliography

* كفاية المتحفظ وغاية المتلفظ ("The Learner's Adequacy and the Speaker's Aspiration")

* العروض الكبير ("The Greater Prosody")

* العروض الصغير ("The Lesser Prosody")

* شرح ما آخره ياء مشددة من الأسماء ("Explanation of That Which Ends With Geminated Ya'")

* مختصر في علم الأنساب ("A Summary of the Science of Genealogy")

* مختصر نسب قريش ("A Brief Genealogy of Quraish")

* الأزمنة والأنواء ("Times and the Climate")

* الرد على أبي حفص بن مكي في تثقيف اللسان ("Reply to Abu Hafs Ibn Makki on Training of the Tongue")

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