Sibawayh
| Sibawayh سيبويه |
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Entrance to Sibawayh's tomb
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| Born | c. 760, Hamadan |
| Died | c. 796,Shiraz |
| Era | Medieval philosophy |
| Region | Islamic philosophy |
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Main interests
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Arabic |
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Influenced
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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
Hammad ibn Salamah
Al-Akhfash al-Akbar
Yunus ibn Habib
Ya‘qub Ibn Ishaq Ibn Zayd Ibn ‘Abdillah Ibn Abi Ishaq
Sa'id ibn Aws al-Ansari
Abū Bishr ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān ibn Qanbar Al-Baṣrī (c. 760–796, Arabic: أبو بشر عمرو بن عثمان بن قنبر البصري), commonly known as Sībawayh (سيبويه; Arabized form of the Middle Persian name Sēbōē), was an influential linguist and grammarian of Arabic. His seminal work, Al-Kitab, was the first written grammar of the language. Despite his significance to the development of the Arabic language and linguistic tradition, Sibawayh was an ethnic Persian and was not a native speaker of Arabic, having learned the language later in life. He has been referred to as the greatest of all Arabic linguists and one of the greatest linguists of all time in any language.
He was of Persian origin, born ca. 760 in Hamadan (modern day Iran).
Sibawayhi was a student of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi and Yunus ibn Habib, two eminent grammarians. Whenever Sibawayh used the phrase "I asked him" or "he said" without mentioning a name, he was referring to al-Farahidi. While he never met Abu ʻAmr ibn al-ʻAlāʼ, he quoted from him 57 times in the Kitab, mainly by transmission via Ibn Habib and al-Farahidi. Sibawayhi was also a student of Harun ibn Musa, though he only quoted the latter five times in the Kitab.
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