Abu 'Abd Allah Jamal al-Din Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Malik al-Ta'i al-Jayyani ( ar, ابو عبدالله جمال الدين محمد بن عبدالله بن محمد بن عبدالله بن مالك الطائي الجياني النحوي ) ( 600
AH – 672 AH / 1203-4 or 1204-5 – 21 February 1274) was an
Arab
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grammarian born in
Jaén. After leaving
al-Andalus
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for the Near East, and taught Arabic language and literature in
Aleppo
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and
Hamāt, before eventually settled in
Damascus
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, where he began the most productive period of his life. He was a senior master at the Adiliyya
Madrasa
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. His reputation in Arabic literature was cemented by his ''al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya'' (known also as simply ''
Alfiya
The Alfiyya of Ibn Malik () is a rhymed book of Arabic grammar written by Ibn Malik in the 13th century. The long title is ''al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya''. According to the historian Al-Maqqari, ''Al-Alfiyya'' was written in imitation of Ibn Muti al-Za ...
''), a versification of Arabic grammar, for which at least 43 commentaries have been written.
References
Sources
Fleisch, H. ''Ibn Mālik'' in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition. CD-ROM Edition v 1.0. (Leiden: Brill, 1999).
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Arab grammarians
Medieval grammarians of Arabic
Grammarians of Arabic
1200s births
1274 deaths
People from Jaén, Spain
13th-century Arabs
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