Sibawayh

Sibawayh

Sibawayh (Arabic: سِيبَوَيْه IPA: [siːbawajh] (also pronounced IPA: [siːbaweː(h)] in many modern dialects) Sībawayh; Persian: سیبُویه‎ Sēbūya [seːbuːˈja]; c. 760–796), whose full name is Abu Bishr Amr ibn Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Basri (أَبُو بِشْر عَمْرو بْن عُثْمَان بْن قَنْبَر ٱلْبَصْرِيّ, 'Abū Bishr 'Amr ibn 'Uthmān ibn Qanbar al-Baṣrī), was a Persian leading grammarian of Basra and author of the Third book on Arabic grammar. His famous unnamed work, referred to as Al-Kitāb, or "The Book", is a five-volume seminal discussion of the Arabic language. Ibn Qutaybah, the earliest extant source, in his biographical entry under Sibawayh simply wrote: He is Amr ibn Uthman, and he was mainly a grammarian. He arrived in Baghdad, fell out with the local grammarians, was humiliated, went back to some town in Persia, and died there while still a young man. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sibawayh is the 27th most popular linguist (up from 28th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Iran (up from 132nd in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Linguist.

Sibawayh is most famous for his Arabic grammar book, "Kitab Sibawayh".