Arab linguists

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

Arab poet and linguist

Arab grammarian

Ottoman Grand Mufti of Mecca (1816–1886)

Tunisian writer

Arab lexicographer, philologist and grammarian

Arab philologist and grammarian

Seventh president of Northeastern University

Iraqi philosopher, historian and linguist