Abū Ziyād al-Kilābī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bauer, Thomas
Leiden
Brill
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Abū Ziyād Yazīd b. ʿAbdallāh b. al-Ḥurr al-Kilābī (d. c. 200/815-6), a member of the Kilāb tribe of ʿĀmir b. Ṣaʿṣaʿa, grew up in a Bedouin environment in Arabia. During the reign of al-Mahdī (158-69/775-85) he migrated to Baghdad to establish contacts with the famous philologists of his time, both as a student and as a Bedouin informant. He acquired a profound knowledge as a philologist but never ceased to speak Arabic with a discernible dialectal influence. Among the scholars who transmitted