Linguists from Iraq

'''Abu al-Hasan 'Ali Ibn Nafi (; 789– 857), commonly known as Ziryab,''' was a singer, oud and lute player, composer, poet, and teacher. He lived and worked in what is now Iraq, Northern Africa, and Andalusia during the medieval Islamic period. He was also a polymath, with knowledge in astronomy, geography, meteorology, botanics, cosmetics, culinary art, and fashion.

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

9th-century Arab scholar, poet and grammarian

Iraqi mufassir and traditionalist

Arabic scholar and grammarian

Grammarian of Basrah

Iraqi assyriologist, archaeologist (1912–1984)

Iraqi politician

Iraqi philosopher, historian and linguist