- Ibn Malik
Ibn Mālik, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Djamāl Al-Dīn Muhammad ( _ar. ابن مالك، محمد بن عبد الله) (c. 600 AH - 672 AH / c.
1204 -22 February ,1274 ) was an Arab grammarian born inJaen ,Spain . After leaving Spain for the Near East, he became a Shāfi‘ī, and taught Arabic language and literature inAleppo and Hamāt, before eventually settled inDamascus , where he began the most productive period of his life. He was a senior master at the Adiliyya Madrasa. His reputation in Arabic literature was cemented by his "al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya" (known also as simply "Alfiyya"), a versification of Arabic grammar, for which at least 43 commentaries have been written.References
Fleisch, H. "Ibn Mālik" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. CD-ROM Edition v 1.0. (Leiden: Brill, 1999).
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NAME = Ibn Malik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Ibn Mālik, Abū ʻAbd Allāh Djamāl Al-Dīn Muhammad
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Arab grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH = 1204
PLACE OF BIRTH =Jaen ,Spain
DATE OF DEATH =22 February ,1274
PLACE OF DEATH =Damascus ,Syria
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