al-Fārisī, Abū ʿAlī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
Leiden
Brill
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Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Fārisī (288-377/919-87) was one of the best known and most prolific Arab grammarians of the fourth/tenth century. He was born in the Iranian town Fasā, hence his nisba al-Fasawī, which he himself never used. His father was Persian, and his mother was an Arab woman of the Banū Sadūs. In 307/919 he came to Baghdad, where he received a rigorous education in philology from al-Akhfash al-Aṣghar (d. 315/927), Ibn al-