Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr (b. 204 AH/819 CE, d. 280 AH/August 893 CE) was a
Persian linguist and poet of
Arabic language. He was born in
Baghdad. Tayfur was his father's name who was from
Khorasan
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* Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
* Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira ...
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Persia. He played an important role in the Arabic literary revolution. Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur was the first writer who devoted a book to writers. He was buried in Bab al-Sham cemetery, where people of note were buried.
Works
*Kitab al-Manthur wa al-Manzum (Book of prose and poetry), in three volumes. This book is the first attested multi-author anthology of prose writing and poetry epistles.
*Kitab Baghdad (Book of Baghdad), 6 volumes, but only one survived.
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Balaghat al-Nisa'
''Balāghāt al-nisāʾ'' ( ar, كتاب بلاغات النساء, "The Eloquence of Women") constitutes volume eleven of the now fragmentary '' al-Manẓūm wa al-Manthūr'' ("The Book of Prose and Poetry") by Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr (d. 280 ...
(the eloquence of women).
*Kitab Sariqat Abi Tammama (book of borrowings/plagiarism of Abi Tammama)
*Al-Mushtaq. This, along with the romantic literature of
Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri and
Ibn Qutaybah, were considered by lexicographer
Ibn Duraid
Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Duraid al-Azdī al-Baṣrī ad-Dawsī Al-Zahrani (), or Ibn Duraid () (c. 837-933 CE), a leading grammarian of Baṣrah, was described as "the most accomplished scholar, ablest philologer and first poet of t ...
to be the three most important works for those who wished to speak and write eloquently.
[Shawkat M. Toorawa, "Ibn Abi Tayfur versus al-Jahiz." Taken from ''ʻAbbasid Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of ʻAbbasid Studies'', pg. 250. Ed. James Edward Montgomery. Volume 135 of Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Peeters Publishers, 2004. ]
In addition, there are scattered quotations of his works and hundreds of verses of his poetry which have survived.
See also
*
Arabic literature
*
List of Iranian scientists and scholars
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
References
*Shawkat M. Toorawa, ''Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic writerly culture: a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad'',
Encyclopedia Islam, ''Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur''
(in Persian)
Citations
Persian-language poets
Linguists from Iran
9th-century Iranian people
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