al-Anbārī, Abū Bakr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
Leiden
Brill
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Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Bashshār al-Anbārī (271-328/885-940), also known as Ibn al-Anbārī, was an eminent Arab philologist of the ʿAbbāsid period. 1. Life Al-Anbārī spent his life in Baghdad. His teachers were his father, Abū Muḥammad al-Anbārī (d. 304/916 or 305/917); Thaʿlab (d. 291/904); and many other shuyūkh , including Ibn Durayd (d. 321/953). For an extensive list of his teachers see Ḥātim Ṣāliḥ al-Ḍāmin in the foreword to his edition of al-Zāhir