Ibn al-Aʿrābī, Abū ʿAbdallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
Leiden
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Ziyād Ibn al-Aʿrābī (150-231/767-846), was a prominent philologist of the Kufan school. He was born in Kufa and died in Sāmarrāʾ. His father, a slave from Sind, became a mawlā (freedman) of al-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad al-Hāshimī (d. 186/802), the younger brother of the first two ʿAbbāsid caliphs and a prominent figure in his own right. His mother was later married to al-Mufaḍḍal b. Muḥammad al-Ḍabbī (d. c. 170/786), who became Ibn al-Aʿrābī's most important