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al-Kisāʾī
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, Abu ’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥamza b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Bahman b. Fayrūz , mawlā of the Banū Asad, well-known Arab philologist and Ḳurʾān-reader (ca. 119-89/737-805). Descendant of an Iranian family from the Sawād, he was born in Bāḥams̲h̲ā, Dud̲j̲ayl, north of Bag̲h̲dād (Yāḳūt, Muʿd̲j̲am , i, 458 s.v.; M. Streck, Die alte Landschaft Babylonien , Leiden 1901, ii, 226) and when still a boy, came to al-Kūfa (Zubaydī, Ṭabaḳāt , 138; Ibn al-D̲j̲azarī, G̲h̲āya , i, 535). It is related that he had difficulties with the ʿarabiyya and therefore sought to attach himself to the grammarian Muʿād̲h̲ al-Harrāʾ ( Taʾ…

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Sellheim, R., “al-Kisāʾī”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_4396>
First published online: 2012
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004161214, 1960-2007



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