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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

718 - 790

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Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن الخليل بن أحمد بن عمرو بن تمام الفراهيدي الأزدي اليحمدي; 718 – 786 CE), known as al-Farāhīdī, or al-Khalīl, was an Arab philologist, lexicographer and leading grammarian of Basra in Iraq. He made the first dictionary of the Arabic language – and the oldest extant dictionary – Kitab al-'Ayn (Arabic: كتاب العين "The Source") – introduced the now standard harakat (vowel marks in Arabic script) system, and was instrumental in the early development of ʿArūḍ (study of prosody), musicology and poetic metre. His linguistic theories influenced the development of Persian, Turkish, Kurdish and Urdu prosody. The "Shining Star" of the Basran school of Arabic grammar, a polymath and scholar, he was a man of genuinely original thought. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi is the 1,556th most popular writer (down from 1,385th in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 142nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Iraqi Writer.

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Among writers, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 1,556 out of 7,302. Before him are Auguste Maquet, Richard Lovelace, Augusto Roa Bastos, Chernorizets Hrabar, Heiner Müller, and Hovhannes Tumanyan. After him are Banine, John Brunner, Shammai, Felice Romani, Joseph Karo, and Forough Farrokhzad.

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Among people born in 718, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 5. Before him are Constantine V, Abu Muslim, Ibrahim ibn Adham, and Empress Kōken. After him are Lupus II of Gascony, and Ōtomo no Yakamochi. Among people deceased in 790, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 1. After him is Chorso.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 167 out of 384. Before him are Vonones II (-25), Artabanus I of Parthia (-200), Enmebaragesi (-2650), Al-Mustakfi (905), En-anna-tum I (-2500), and Barham Salih (1960). After him are Dinkha IV (1935), Adil Abdul-Mahdi (1942), Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i (1904), Eannatum (-2500), Mahmud Barzanji (1878), and David Sassoon (1792).

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Among writers born in Iraq, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 13. Before him are Al-Mutanabbi (915), Ibn Sirin (653), Ibn al-Jawzi (1116), Ibn Khallikan (1211), Karim Findi (1946), and Ibn al-Nadim (1000). After him are Al-Hariri of Basra (1054), Aphrahat (280), Al-Sharif al-Radi (970), Al-Farazdaq (641), Ishaq ibn Hunayn (830), and Al-Asmaʿi (740).

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