Sibawayh

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Sibawayh was an 8th-century Persian scholar whose foundational treatise on Arabic grammar, al-Kitāb, established the systematic study and rules of Classical Arabic.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf grammarian
linguist
person
scholar
associatedWith Basran school
birthPlace Persia
century 8th century
classification Basran grammarian
contributedTo codification of Arabic grammatical rules
systematic study of Classical Arabic
culturalBackground Persian in Arab-Islamic milieu
diedInCentury 8th century
educatedIn Basra
era Islamic Golden Age
ethnicity Persian
fieldOfWork Arabic grammar
linguistics
fullName ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar
hasGenre grammar treatise
hasLegacy basis for later Arabic grammatical works
standard reference for Classical Arabic grammar
influenced Arabic grammatical tradition
Basran school of grammar
influencedBy Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
knownFor foundational treatise on Arabic grammar
systematic description of Classical Arabic
languageOfWork Arabic
languageOfWriting Arabic
mainSubjectOfWork Classical Arabic
nameInArabic سيبويه
notableWork al-Kitāb
notableWorkInArabic الكتاب
occupation philologist
teacher
regionOfActivity Basra
Iraq
religion Islam
studied Arabic poetry
Quranic Arabic
studiedUnder Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
usedSources Bedouin speech
Quran
pre-Islamic poetry
wroteAbout Arabic case endings
Arabic inflection
morphology
phonology
syntax

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