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Details
| Birthplace |
Murcia, Caliphate of Córdoba, Andalusia, now Spain
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| Died |
1066
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| Place of Death |
Dénia, Taifa of Dénia and the Eastern Islands, Andalusia
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| Occupation Text |
Muslim Andalusian Scholar in Córdoba, Andalusia, Grammarian
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| Occupation |
Historian
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Abū’l-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl (أبو الحسن على بن اسماعيل), known as Ibn Sīdah (ابن سيده), or Ibn Sīdah'l-Mursī (ابن سيده المرسي), (c.1007-1066), was a linguist, philologist and lexicographer of Classical Arabic from Andalusia. He compiled the encyclopedia al-Kitāb al-Mukhaṣṣaṣ (المخصص)(Book of Customs) and the Arabic language dictionary Al-Muḥkam wa-al-muḥīt al-aʻẓam (المحكم والمحيط الأعظم) (The Great and Comprehensive Arbiter". His contributions to the sciences of language, literature and logic were considerable.
