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page 1Arab lexicographers
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Arab bibliographer and geographer (1179–1229)

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
Iraqi lexicographer, philologist and poet (718 – 786 CE)
Al-ʾAṣmaʿiyy
Al-Asmaʿi (, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb al-Aṣmaʿī ; –828/833), or Asmai was an Arab philologist and one of three leading Arabic grammarians of the Basra school. At the court of the Abbasid caliph, Hārūn al-Rashīd, as polymath and prolific author on philology, poetry, genealogy, and natural science, he pioneered zoology studies in animal-human anatomical science. He compiled an important poetry anthology, the ''Asma'iyyat'', and was credited with composing an epic on the life of Antarah ibn Shaddad. A protégé of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi and Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala', he was a contemporary and
Ibn Manzur
Maghrebi Arab lexicographer of the Arabic language (c.1233-c.1312)
ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl Ibn Sīdah
Arab grammarian
Ibn al-Qūṭiyya
Andalusian historian

Aḥmad Ibn-Fāris
Iranian scientist
Abu Bakar az-Zabidi
10th century poet, philosopher and scholar of al-Andalus
Abu Amr Ishaq ibn Mirar al-Shaybani
muslim writer
Abu al-'Abbas Tha'lab
Arab poet and grammarian