Abu Bakr az-Zubaydi

Abū Bakr az-Zubaydī (أبو بكر الزبيدي), also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Madḥīj al-Faqīh and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan az-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 az-Zubaydī, Abū Bakr (محمد بن الحسن الزبيدي أبو بكر)
Born918 or 928 [306 or 316 A.H.]
Died6 September 989(989-09-06) (aged 61) [379 A.H.]
Other namesAbū Bakr az-Zubaydī al-Andalusī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan az-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī
Academic work
EraCaliphate of Córdoba
(Ḥakīm II era)
Main interestspoetry, philology, fiqh (law), etc.
Notable worksṬabaqāt an-Naḥwīyīn wa-al-Lughawīyīn
InfluencedAbū al-Walid Muḥammad (d. ca. 1048), son and pupil.

Life

Az-Zubaydī was a native of Seville, al-Andalus (present-day Spain), whose ancestor, Bishr ad-Dākhil ibn Ḥazm of Yemeni origin, had come with the Umayyads to al-Andalus from Ḥimṣ in the Levant (Syria).[citation needed] Az-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.[citation needed] At the Caliph’s encouragement, az-Zubaydī composed many books on philology, and biographies of philologists and lexicographers. He became qāḍī of Seville, where he died in 989.[citation needed]

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