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Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sarī al-Zajjāj (Шаблон:Lang-ar) was a grammarian of Basrah, a scholar of philology and theology and a favourite at the Abbāsid court. He died in 922Шаблон:RefnШаблон:Sfn at Baghdād, the capital city in his time.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Life

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Sarī (Surrī) al-Zajjāj had been a glass-grinder – al-Zajjāj means ‘the glassman’ - before abandoning this trade to study philology under the two leading grammarians, al-Mubarrad of the Baṣran school and Tha'lab of the Kufan school. As top student and class representative he advised al-Mubarrad. He studied “Al-Kitāb” of Sībawayh with the Baṣrah grammarian Abū Fahd.Шаблон:RefnШаблон:Sfn

Al-Zajjāj entered the Abbāsid court, first as tutor to al-Qāsim ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh,Шаблон:Refn son of the vizier ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Sulaymān ibn Wahb’s Шаблон:Refn and later, as tutor to the sons of the caliph al-Mu‘taḍid.

On his succession to the vizierate, Caliph al-Mu’taḍid ordered vizier al-Qāsim to commission an exposition of the Compendium of Speech by Maḥbarah al-Nadīm.Шаблон:Refn Both Tha’lab and Al-Mubarrad declined the project for lack of knowledgeШаблон:Sfn and old age respectively. Al-Mubarrad proposed his friend and relative novice al-Zajjāj, who was commissioned to work on just two sections as a trial of his abilities. In doing his research he consulted books on language by Tha‘lab, al-Sukkarī, et al. He was assisted by al-Tirmidhī the Younger, as his amanuensis. The bound two-section commentary greatly impressed Caliph al-Mu’taḍid and al-Zajjāj was given the work to complete the commentary for the payment of three hundred gold dīnār. The finished manuscript was kept in al-Mu’taḍid's royal library, and the issuing of any copies to other libraries was prohibited.Шаблон:Refn

Winning the caliph's favour, he received a royal pension of three hundred gold dīnār from three official roles as court companion, jurist and scholar.Шаблон:Sfn

Among al-Zajjāj's pupils were the grammarian Abū Alī al-Fārisī and Abū ‘l-Qāsim Abd ar-Raḥmān, author of the Jumal fi ‘n-Nawhi,Шаблон:Refn Ibn al-SarrājШаблон:Sfn and ‘Alī al-MarāghīШаблон:Refn the rival of Abu al-‘Abbās Tha’lab.{{refn|group=n|Perhaps this was al-Mubarrad Abū al-‘AbbāsШаблон:Citation needed

Al-Zajjāj had a dispute with al-Khayyāṭ,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn a grammarian-theologian of Samarqand, whom he met in Baghdād.Шаблон:Sfn

Al-Zajjāj died at Baghdād on 13 October 922 [Friday, 18th, or 19th, Jumada al-Akhirah 310 AH] - other sources give 924 and 928 [311 and 316 AH.], aged over eighty.

Selected works

  • Kitāb Fa‘altu wa-Af‘altu (Шаблон:Lang); on the first and fourth Arabic verb forms
  • Book of Anecdotes;

Abū Alī al-Fārisī wrote a treatise in refutation of al-Zajjāj, titled Kitāb al-masā’il al-maslahat yurwiha ‘an az-Zajjāj wa-tu’raf bi-al-Aghfāl (Шаблон:Lang); the Aghfāl (‘Negligences’, or ‘Beneficial (Corrected) Questions’), in which he refutes al-Zajjāj in his book Maāni (Rhetoric).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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Further reading

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