Abū Zakarīyāʾ Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād al-Farrāʾ

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Abū Zakarīyāʾ Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād al-Farrāʾ was a prominent 9th-century Kufan grammarian and philologist of the Arabic language, associated with the Kufan school of grammar.

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instanceOf Arabic grammarian
Kufan grammarian
person
philologist
activeCentury 9th century
associatedWithSchool Kufan school of grammar NERFINISHED
birthCentury 8th century
deathCentury 9th century
era Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED
fatherName Ziyād NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Arabic grammar
Qurʾānic exegesis
philology
genre Qurʾānic commentary
grammatical treatise
givenName Yaḥyā NERFINISHED
influenced later Arabic grammarians
influencedBy Kufan linguistic tradition
kunya Abū Zakarīyāʾ NERFINISHED
languageOfWork Arabic
nameInArabic أبو زكريا يحيى بن زياد الفراء NERFINISHED
nisba al-Farrāʾ NERFINISHED
notableWork Maʿānī al-Qurʾān NERFINISHED
al-Lughāt NERFINISHED
al-Ḥudūd NERFINISHED
occupation scholar
teacher
placeOfActivity Baghdad NERFINISHED
Kufa NERFINISHED
region Iraq NERFINISHED
religion Islam
specialization Arabic lexicography
Qurʾānic grammar
tradition classical Arabic linguistics

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Al-Farrāʾ fullName Abū Zakarīyāʾ Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād al-Farrāʾ