Ibn Durayd

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Also Known As	Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azdī ibn Durayd
Born	837 or 838 • Basra • Iraq
Died	August 13, 933 • Baghdad • Iraq
Subjects Of Study	Arabic language

Ibn Qutaybah

Muslim author

Buṭrus al-Bustānī

Lebanese scholar

al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad

Arab philologist

al-Fīrūzābādī

Iranian lexicographer

al-Mubarrad

Arab grammarian

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Alexandre de Rhodes

French missionary

Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī

Persian scholar

Adoniram Judson

American missionary

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

David Kimhi

European scholar

Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange

French scholar

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Serbian language scholar

Ibn Janāḥ

Spanish-Jewish grammarian

Sir George Abraham Grierson

Irish linguist

Sir William Jones

British orientalist and jurist

Hesychius of Alexandria

Greek lexicographer

E.H. Palmer

British linguist

Kazimieras Būga

Lithuanian linguist

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