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Also known as al-Fayrūzabādī, el-Fīrūz Abādī

Firuzabadi ( ; 1329–1414), whose proper name was '''Abu 'l-Ṭāhir Muḥammad ib Yaʿqūb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Majd al-Dīn al-Shāfiʿī al-Shīrāzī' (), was a Persian Sunni Muslim polymath. He excelled in hadith, grammar, philology, history, literature, poetry and Islamic jurisprudence. He was a revered narrator and preserver of Prophetic traditions. Regarded as a major linguist and one of the prominent scholars of the 15th century. He was one of the leading lexicographers in the medieval Islamic world. He was the compiler of Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ "The Encompassing Ōkeanós''", a comprehensive Arabic di

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Born
1329
Died
1414 or 15.
Works
56

Top works

  • Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ
  • al-Muthallathah al-mukhtalif al-maʻnī
  • Min hadá al-Rasūl, al-musammá, Sifr al-saʻādah
  • Kamus
  • al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ

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Key facts

Religious biography.religion
Islam
Religious biography.occupation
Polymath, Lexicographer, Linguist, Traditionist, Litterateur, Historian
Religious biography.era
Middle Ages
Religious biography.image
Khalili Collection Hajj and Arts of Pilgrimage mss 0236 fol 0b-1a.jpg
Religious biography.caption
Folio from a 16th-century manuscript of the Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage
Religious biography.honorific_prefix
Imam
Religious biography.name
al-Firuzabadi
Religious biography.native_name
الفيروزآبادي
Religious biography.native_name_lang
ar
Religious biography.title
Majd al-DinAl-Ḥāfiẓ
Religious biography.birth_date
1329 CE
Religious biography.birth_place
Kazerun, Iran
Religious biography.death_place
Zabid, Yemen
Religious biography.region
Middle East
Religious biography.denomination
Sunni
Religious biography.jurisprudence
Shafi'i
Religious biography.creed
Ash'ari
Religious biography.main_interests
Lexicography, Linguistic, Arabic grammar, Philology, Arabic literature, Hadith, History, Islamic jurisprudence, Poetry

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Name
  • Lineage
  • Life
  • Legacy
  • Sufism and relations with Ibn Arabi
  • Selected works
  • References
  • External links
  • Further reading

Firuzabadi ( ; 1329–1414), whose proper name was '''Abu 'l-Ṭāhir Muḥammad ib Yaʿqūb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Majd al-Dīn al-Shāfiʿī al-Shīrāzī' (), was a Persian Sunni Muslim polymath. He excelled in hadith, grammar, philology, history, literature, poetry and Islamic jurisprudence. He was a revered narrator and preserver of Prophetic traditions. Regarded as a major linguist and one of the prominent scholars of the 15th century. He was one of the leading lexicographers in the medieval Islamic world. He was the compiler of Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ "The Encompassing Ōkeanós''", a comprehensive Arabic dictionary which, for nearly five centuries, was one of the most widely used.

==Name== Known simply as Muḥammad ibn Ya'qūb al-Fīrūzābādī (), his nisbas "al-Shīrāzī" and "al-Fīrūzābādī" refer to the cities of Shiraz (located near Kazerun, his place of birth) and Firuzabad (his father's hometown) in Fars, Persia, respectively.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Firuzabadi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.