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.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Sibawayh canonical 7
Sībawayh 3
Imām al-naḥw 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf grammarian
linguist
person
scholar
associatedWith Kufa school of grammar
surface form: 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
Basra school of grammar
surface form: Basran school of grammar
influencedBy Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
surface form: 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 Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
surface form: 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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Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Al-Mubarrad influencedBy Sibawayh
this entity surface form: Sībawayh
Kitab of Sibawayh author Sibawayh
al-Kitāb author Sibawayh
this entity surface form: Sībawayh
سيبويه title Sibawayh
this entity surface form: شيخ النحاة
ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar hasAlias Sibawayh
this entity surface form: Sībawayhi
ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar hasAlias Sibawayh
this entity surface form: Sībawayh
ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar hasHonorific Sibawayh
this entity surface form: Imām al-naḥw
Yunus ibn Habib influenced Sibawayh