Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī, al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār (288–377/901–987), was a Persian grammarian (naḥwī), lexicographer (lughawī) and Qurʾān reader (muqriʾ). He was born in Fasā, in the province of Fārs, and for that reason was called al-Fasawī or al-Fārisī (al-Zubaydī, 120; al-Tanūkhī, 4/43). His father was Persian and his mother Arab. She came from the tribe of Sadūs b. Shaybān (a branch…