Abu Bakr al-Zubaydi

Abū Bakr al-Zubaydī (أبو بكر الزبيدي), also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Madḥīj al-Faqīh and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī (محمد بن الحسن الزبيدي الإشبيلي), held the title Akhbār al-fuquhā[1] and wrote books on topics including philology, biography, history, philosophy, law, lexicology, and hadith.

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zubaydī, Abū Bakr (محمد بن الحسن الزبيدي أبو بكر)
Born918 or 928 [316 A.H.]
Seville, Al-Andalus
Died6 September 989(989-09-06) (aged 61) [379 A.H.]
Seville, Al-Andalus
Other namesAbū Bakr al-Zubaydī al-Andalusī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī
Academic work
EraUmayyad Caliphate of Córdoba of Ḥakīm II
Main interestspoetry, philology, fiqh (law), etc.
Notable worksṬabaqāt al-Naḥwīyīn wa-al-Lughawīyīn
InfluencedAbū al-Walid Muḥammad (d. ca. 1048), son and pupil.

Life

Al-Zubaydī was a native of Seville, al-Andalus (present-day Spain), whose ancestor, Bishr al-Dākhil ibn Ḥazm of Yemeni origin, had come with the Umayyads to al-Andalus from Ḥimṣ in the Levant (Syria). Al-Zubaydī moved to Córdoba, the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate, to study under Abū ‘Alī al-Qālī. His scholarship on the philologist Sībawayh’s grammar, Al-Kitāb, led to his appointment as tutor to the son of the humanist caliph Ḥakam II, the crown prince Hishām II. At the Caliph’s encouragement, al-Zubaydī composed many books on philology, and biographies of philologists and lexicographers. He became qāḍī of Seville, where he died in 989.

Works[2]
  • Al-Istidrāk ‘alā Sībawayh fī Kitāb al-abniya wa’l-ziyāda ‘alā mā awradahu fīhi muhadhdhab (Rome, 1890)[3] (Baghdād, 1970), (Riyad, 1987)
  • Ṭabaqāt al-Naḥwīyīn wa-al-Lughawīyīn (طبقات النحويين واللغويين) ‘Categories of Grammarians and Linguists’; (973-6) Biographical dictionary of the early philologists and lexicographers of the Basran, Kufan and Baghdād schools; almost contemporaneous with Ibn al-Nadim's Al-Fihrist. Both works bear witness to the emergence of the science of Arabic philology, and to the close intellectual contact between the Abbāsid and Umayyad seats of power at Baghdād and Cordoba, respectively. (Cairo, 1954)[4][5][6][7]
  • Akhbār al-fuquhā; al-muta’akhkhirīn min ahl Qurṭuba; History of the jurisconsults of Córdoba[1]
  • Amthilat al-abniya fī Kitāb Sībawayh Tafsīr Abī Bakr al-Zubaydī
  • Basṭ al-Bāri’[8][2]
  • Al-ghāya fi ‘l-arūḍ[9][10]
  • Ikhtiṣār; Selections from Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ in Francisco Pons y Boigues[11]
  • Istidrāk al-ghalaṭ al-wāqi’ fī Kitāb al-‘Ayn (استدراك الغلط الواقع في كتاب العين)[12]
  • Laḥn al-‘awāmm (لحن العوام); dialectical speech errors; ed., R. 'Abd al-Tawwāb, Cairo 1964.[13][14]
  • Mukhtaṣar al-Ayn (مختصر العين) ‘Selections from Al-Ayn of Khalīl ibn Aḥmad’ (before 976)[15]
  • Al-Mustadrak min al-ziyāda fī Kitab al-Bāri’ alā Kitāb al-‘Ayn
  • Al-radd ‘alā Ibn Masarra, or Hatk sutūr al-mulḥidīn[16]
  • Risālat al-intiṣār li ‘l-Khalīl[17]
  • Al-Tahdhīb bi-muḥkam al-tartīb (التهذيب بمحكم الترتيب) from the Laḥn al-ʻāmmah[18]
  • Al-Taqrīz[19]
  • Al-wāḍīḥ fī ‘ilm al-‘arabiyya (الواضح في علم العربية); grammar after Sībawayh (Cairo, 1975), ('Ammān, 1976)
  • Al-ziyadat ‘alā kitāb 'iṣlaḥ laḥn al-ʻaāmmah bi-al-Andalus (الزيادات على كتاب إصلاح لحن العامة بالأندلس)[20]

See also
  • List of Arab scientists and scholars

References
  1. Ḥājjī Khalīfa 1777, p. 619.
  2. Sellheim 2002, p. 548.
  3. Zubaydī (al-) 1890.
  4. Zubaydī (al-) 1954.
  5. Sellheim 2002, p. 577.
  6. Sellheim 1955, pp. 346-8.
  7. Krenkow, F (1920) [1919]. Ibn Sa'd, et-Tabakât (exerpts). viii. Rome.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  8. Bonebakker 1961, p. 174.
  9. Ḥājjī Khalīfa.
  10. Ḥājjī Khalīfa (1842). Zunun al-Kashf (Lexicon bibliographicum et encyclopaedicum a Mustafa ben Abdallah Katib) (in Arabic and Latin). iii.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  11. Pons Boigues, Francisco (1898). Ensayo bio-bibliográfico sobre los historiadores y géografos arábigo-españoles (in Spanish). Madrid (Spain): S.F. de Sales, Biblioteca Nacional.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  12. Wadghīrī, ʻAbd al-ʻĀlī; Farṭūsī, Ṣalāḥ Mahdī, eds. (2003). Istidrāk al-ghalaṭ al-wāqiʻ fī kitāb al-ʻAyn. Damascus: Majmaʻ al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah bi-Dimashq.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  13. Krotkoff 1957, p. 427, 2.
  14. Zubaydī (al-) 2000.
  15. Zubaydī (al-) 2007.
  16. Khallikān (Ibn) 1972.
  17. Qifṭī (al-) 1986, p. 109, iii.
  18. Zubaydī (al-), Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, Abū Bakr (2002). Shuhayd (Ibn), Abū ʻĀmir Aḥmad; Ḍāmin, Ḥātim Ṣāliḥ (eds.). al-Tahdhīb bi-muḥkam al-tartīb (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: Dār al-Bashāʼir al-Islāmīyah.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  19. Ishbīlī (Ibn Khayr al-) 2009, p. 351.
  20. Zubaydī (al-) 1993.

Bibliography
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.