Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Lughawī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Lughawī , ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAlī al-ʿAskarī al-Ḥalabī (d. 351/962), was an Arabic linguist who specialised in semantics and lexicography (ʿilm al-lugha), hence known as al-Lughawī. Abū l-Ṭayyib was born in ʿAskar Mukram and went to study in Baghdad. His main teachers were Abū ʿUmar al-Zāhid, known as Ghulām Thaʿlab (d. 345/956), and Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī (d. c.335/946). From Baghdad he went to Aleppo, which the Ḥamdānid ruler Sayf al-Dawla (r. 333-56/944-