al-Jawharī, Ismāʿīl b. Ḥammād - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū Naṣr Ismāʿīl b. Ḥammād al-Jawharī is the author of one of the most renowned Arabic lexica, al-Ṣiḥāḥ . His date of birth is unknown, and the sources differ as to the year of his death: the earliest date given is 393/1003 and the latest is about 400/1010. Al-Jawharī was born in Fārāb (Otrar) in central Asia and is referred to often as al-Fārābī. In his early years he studied under his maternal uncle, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Fārābī (d. 350/961), and later went