Al-ʾAṣmaʿiyy
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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
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946-04-13
Discography
- Back Up Train1967
- Green Is Blues1969
- Gets Next to You1971
- Let’s Stay Together1972
- I’m Still in Love With You1972
- Call Me1973
- Livin’ for You1973
- Explores Your Mind1974
- Al Green Is Love1975
- Full of Fire1976
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Key facts
- Scholar.name
- Abu Saeed ʿAbd al-Malik b. Quraib al-Aṣmaʿī Al-bahili
- Scholar.native_name
- أبو سعيد عبد الملك ابن قريب الأصمعي الباهلي
- Scholar.native_name_lang
- ar
- Scholar.birth_date
- 740
- Scholar.birth_place
- Basra, Iraq
- Scholar.death_place
- Basra
- Scholar.era
- Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid era)
- Scholar.main_interests
- grammar, poetry, natural science, zoology
- Scholar.major_works
- ''Asma'iyyat'', Fuḥūlat al-Shu’arā’, Book of Distinction, the Book of the Wild Animals, The sound of the Nightingale's whisle
- Scholar.influences
- Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Abū 'Amr ibn al-'Ala'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abdul Malik
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Basra
- Place of death
- Basra
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Native language
- Arabic
- Student of
- Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
- Field of work
- folkloristics
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- date of birth
- 0738-00-00
- student
- Al-Jahiz
- name in native language
- أبو سعيد عبد الملك بن قريب الأصمعي
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- writing language
- Arabic
- date of death
- 0831-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Rivalry between Al-Aṣma’ī and Abū ‘Ubaida
- Works
- Contribution to early Arabic literature
- List of edited poets
- See also
- Notes
- External links
- References
- Sources
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 rival of Abū ʿUbaidah and Sibawayhi also of the Basran school.
Ibn Isḥaq al-Nadīm's c.10th biography of al-Aṣma’ī follows the “isnad” narrative or ‘chain-of-transmission’ tradition. Al-Nadīm reports Abū ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muqlah's written report of Tha’lab's report, giving Al-Aṣma’ī‘s full name as ’’‘Abd al-Malik ibn Qurayb ibn ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Ali ibn Aṣma’ī ibn Muẓahhir ibn ‘Amr ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Bāhilī.’’’
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-ʾAṣmaʿiyy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.