al-Kalāʿī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Ghafūr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū l-Qāsim Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ghafūr b. Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Ghafūr (d. after 542/1147) al-Kalāʿī -from the Ḥimyarite tribe of Dhū l-Kalāʿ-was an Andalusī secretary and a jurist, and the author of Iḥkām ṣanʿat al-kalām ("Mastering the art of prose writing"), a treatise belonging to the genre of Arabic secretarial manuals ( adab al-kātib ). 1. Life Ibn ʿAbd al-Ghafūr was probably born in or around Seville, where his family came from and where both his grandfather and father ranked among the