Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi was an 8th-century Arab philologist and lexicographer renowned for founding Arabic prosody and compiling one of the earliest Arabic dictionaries.

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instanceOf Arab scholar
Muslim scholar
founder of Arabic prosody
lexicographer
linguist
philologist
birthPlace Basra
Oman
citizenship Abbasid Caliphate
Umayyad Caliphate
contributedTo codification of Arabic grammar
early Arabic lexicography
developed metrical patterns of classical Arabic poetry
systematic Arabic prosody (ʿarud)
era 8th century
Islamic Golden Age
ethnicGroup Arabs
fieldOfWork Arabic grammar
Arabic linguistics
Quranic studies
lexicography
philology
prosody
givenName Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi self-linksurface differs
surface form: Al-Khalil
influenced Sibawayh
later Arabic grammarians
knownFor Kitab al-ʿAyn
compiling one of the earliest Arabic dictionaries
founding the science of Arabic prosody
language Arabic
legacy foundational figure in Arabic linguistic sciences
mainResidence Basra
memberOf Basra school of grammar
surface form: Basran school of grammar
name Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi self-link
nisba Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi self-linksurface differs
surface form: al-Farahidi
notableWork Kitab al-ʿAyn
work on Arabic prosody (al-ʿArud)
notedFor ascetic lifestyle
precision in linguistic analysis
occupation author
teacher
patronymicName ibn Ahmad
region Basra
religion Islam
studiedUnder Abu Amr ibn al-Ala
Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani
teacherOf Sibawayh

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Sibawayh studiedUnder Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
this entity surface form: Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
Al-Asmaʿi studentOf Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
this entity surface form: al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
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this entity surface form: al-Farahidi
Abu Amr ibn al-Ala teacherOf Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi