Al-Kisa'i
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kisa'i, ʿAlī b. Ḥamzaŧ, Abū al-Ḥasan, al-Asadī, [Mawlá], al-Kūfī, al-Kisāʾī, al-Kisāʾī
Al-Kisā’ī (d. ca. 804 or 812) was a Persian polymath and founder of the Kufan School of Arabic grammar. He directly served caliph Harun al Rashid as the Abbasid court tutor for two future caliphs. He is also called one of the ‘Seven Readers’ of the seven canonical Qira'at.
Key facts
- Scholar.name
- Al-Kisā’ī ()
- Scholar.othernames
- Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Ḥamzah ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Uthman, (); Bahman ibn Fīrūz (); Abū ‘Abd Allāh ().
- Scholar.birth_place
- Al-Kūfah, Irāq
- Scholar.death_date
- 804
- Scholar.death_place
- Al-Rayy, Iran
- Scholar.era
- Abbāsid Caliphate
- Scholar.school_tradition
- Grammarians of Kufa
- Scholar.main_interests
- philology, Arabic language, Bedouin poetry, idioms Quran
- Scholar.influences
- Al-Ru’āsī, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Yunus ibn Habib, et al.
- Scholar.influenced
- Hisham ibn Muawiyah and Al-Farrā'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eli
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Kufa
- Place of death
- Ray
- Occupation
- philologist
- Religion
- Islam
- Student of
- Al-Ru'asi
- Field of work
- tafsir
- Image
- أبو الحسن الكسائي.png
- Work location
- Baghdad
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- date of birth
- 0737-01-01
- student
- Yaḥyā Ibn-Ziyād Farrāʾ
- name in native language
- أبو الحسن علي بن حمزة الكسائي
- different from
- Kisai Marvazi
- date of death
- 0805-01-01
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- Notes
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Al-Kisā’ī (d. ca. 804 or 812) was a Persian polymath and founder of the Kufan School of Arabic grammar. He directly served caliph Harun al Rashid as the Abbasid court tutor for two future caliphs. He is also called one of the ‘Seven Readers’ of the seven canonical Qira'at.
==Life== A Persian born in al-Kūfah, he learned grammar from al-Ru’āsī and a group of other scholars. It is said that al-Kisā’ī took this moniker from the particular kind of mantle he wore called a kisā’.
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