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Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi

Arab grammarian, Philologist, Author and Imam of Later Abbasid era (1074–1144)

Summary

Arab grammarian, Philologist, Author and Imam of Later Abbasid era (1074–1144)

Field	Value
name	Al-Jawaliqi
الجوالیقی
birth_name	Abu Mansur Mauhub ibn Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Khidhr bin al-Hassan al-Jawaliqi al-Baghdadi
أبو منصور موهوب بن أحمد بن محمد بن الخضر بن الحسن الجواليقي البغدادي
birth_date	April 1074
birth_place	Baghdad, Iraq
death_date	17 July 1144 (aged 70)
death_place	Baghdad, Iraq
period	Islamic golden age
(Later Abbasid era)
occupation	grammarian, philologist
notableworks	Kitab al-Mu'arrab
کتاب المُعَرَّب

الجوالیقی أبو منصور موهوب بن أحمد بن محمد بن الخضر بن الحسن الجواليقي البغدادي (Later Abbasid era) کتاب المُعَرَّب

Abū Manṣūr Mauhūb al-Jawālīqī () (April 1074–17 July 1144) was an Arab grammarian born in Baghdād, where he studied philology under Khātib al-Tibrizī (1030 – 1109) and became famous for his handwriting. In his later years he acted as Imam to the Abbāsid caliph Al-Muqtafi.

Works

Kitāb al-Mu'arrab (كتاب المُعَرَّب), (tr. 'Explanation of Foreign Words used in Arabic'). His chief work; published as edited text from an incomplete manuscript by Eduard Sachau (Leipzig, 1867). Many of the lacunae in this have been supplied from another manuscript by W. Spitta in the Journal of the German Oriental Society, xxxiii. 208 sqq.
Al-Jawālīqī's Supplement to the Durrat ul-Ghawwas of Al-Hariri of Basra; published as Le Livre des locutions vicieuses, Arabic text with French introduction and notes by Hartwig Derenbourg, Morgenländische Forschungen (Leipzig, 1875), pp. 107–166.

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