Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr (b. 204 AH/819 CE, d. 280 AH/August 893 CE) was a

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linguist and poet of

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. He was born in

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. Tayfur was his father's name who was from

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. 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. *

Balaghat al-Nisa' ''Balāghāt al-nisāʾ'' (, "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. 280/893). It is noted as one of the princ ...

(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 Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣbahānī, also known as Avendeath, was a medieval theologian and scholar of the Arabic language and Islamic law. He was one of the early propagators of his father Daw ...

and

Ibn Qutaybah Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī al-Marwazī better known simply as Ibn Qutaybah (; c. 828 – 13 November 889 CE/213 – 15 Rajab 276 AH) was an Islamic scholar of Persian people, Persian descent. He served as a q ...

, 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 ...

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.

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)

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