Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi

Abū Manṣūr Mauhūb al-Jawālīqī (April 1074–17 July 1144), Arab grammarian, was 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.

Al-Jawaliqi
الجوالیقی
BornAbu 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
April 1074
Baghdad, Iraq
Died17 July 1144 (aged 70)
Baghdad, Iraq
OccupationArab grammarian, philologist
PeriodAbbasid Caliphate
Notable worksKitab al-Mu'arrab
کتاب المُعَرَّب

Works
  • Kitāb al-Mu'arrab (كتاب المُعَرَّب), (tr. 'Explanation of Foreign Words used in Arabic').[1] 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.[1]

Notes
  1. Thatcher 1911, p. 294.

References
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Jawālīqī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 294.

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