Ibn al-Ajdābī ( ar, أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن إسماعيل بن أحمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الأجدابي الطرابلسي, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm ibn Ismā'īl ibn Ahmad ibn Abdallāh al-Lawātī al-Ajdābī al-Tarāblisī) died after c. 1077 AD (456 AH) was a prominent Libyan scholar and linguist. His fields of expertise covered Islamic jurisprudence,

kalam ''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ( ar, عِلْم الكَلام, literally "science of discourse"), usually foreshortened to ''Kalām'' and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is the philosophical study of Islamic doc ...

Arabic language Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...

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astronomy Astronomy () is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and evolution. Objects of interest include planets, moons, stars, nebulae, g ...

. He lived all his life in Tripoli and died and was buried there. He studied under Libyan scholars of his time and was famous for being interested in meeting those who traveled through Tripoli from the

Mashriq The Mashriq ( ar, ٱلْمَشْرِق), sometimes spelled Mashreq or Mashrek, is a term used by Arabs to refer to the eastern part of the Arab world, located in Western Asia and eastern North Africa. Poetically the "Place of Sunrise", th ...

and the

Maghrib The Maghrib Prayer ( ar, صلاة المغرب ', "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayer). As an Islamic day starts at sunset, the Maghrib prayer is technically the first prayer of the day. If counted from midni ...

and acquiring wider knowledge from them. It is said that when he was asked about how he acquired all this knowledge, he replied, "I acquired it from the Huwwāra and Znāta gates," which refers to the names of two main gates to Tripoli, named after two Berber tribes.

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* كفاية المتحفظ وغاية المتلفظ (''The Learner's Adequacy and the Speaker's Aspiration'') * العروض الكبير (''The Greater Prosody'') * العروض الصغير (''The Lesser Prosody'') * شرح ما آخره ياء مشددة من الأسماء (''Explanation of That Which Ends With Geminated Ya''') * مختصر في علم الأنساب (''A Summary of the Science of Genealogy'') * مختصر نسب قريش (''A Brief Genealogy of

Quraish The Quraysh ( ar, قُرَيْشٌ) were a grouping of Arab clans that historically inhabited and controlled the city of Mecca and its Kaaba. The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born into the Hashim clan of the tribe. Despite this, many of the Qu ...

'') * الأزمنة والأنواء (''Times and the Climate'')Rana M.N. Ehsan Elahie (ed.), ''The Book of Seasonal Periods and Sky Signs by Ibn al-Ajdābī'' (Islamabad: Pakistan Hijra Council, 1990 ''One Hundred Great Books of Islamic Civilisation'', nr. 94 provides an edition of the Arabic text and an English translation. According to this edition Ibn al-Ajdābī died around 1252 AD (650 AH). * الرد على أبي حفص بن مكي في تثقيف اللسان (''Reply to Abu Hafs Ibn Makki on Training of the Tongue'')

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