Reports vary, some saying he went first to Basra, then to Baghdad, and finally back to the village of al-Baida near Shiraz where he died between 177/793 and 180/796, while another says he died in Basra in 161/777. ![]() Biography īorn circa 143/760, Sibawayh was from Shiraz, in today Fars Province, Iran. ![]() He has been called the greatest of all Arabic linguists and one of the greatest linguists of all time in any language. The tenth-century biographers Ibn al-Nadim and Abu Bakr al-Zubaydi, and in the 13th-century Ibn Khallikan, attribute Sibawayh with contributions to the science of the Arabic language and linguistics that were unsurpassed by those of earlier and later times. He arrived in Baghdad, fell out with the local grammarians, was humiliated and went back to some town in Persia, and died there while still a young man. He is Amr ibn Uthman, and he was mainly a grammarian. ![]() Ibn Qutaybah, the earliest extant source, in his biographical entry under Sibawayh simply wrote: ![]() His famous unnamed work, referred to as Al-Kitāb, or "The Book", is a five-volume seminal discussion of the Arabic language. 760–796), whose full name is Abu Bishr Amr ibn Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Basri ( أَبُو بِشْر عَمْرو بْن عُثْمَان بْن قَنْبَر ٱلْبَصْرِيّ, ’Abū Bishr ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Qanbar al-Baṣrī), was a Persian leading grammarian of Basra and author of the earliest book on Arabic grammar.
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