al-Isfarāyīnī, ʿIṣām al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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El-Rouayheb, Khaled
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ʿIṣām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArabshāh al-Isfarāyīnī (b. 871/1466-7, d. 943/1536-7) was one of the pre-eminent grammarians and rhetoricians of the Islamic world after the eighth/fourteenth century. His works were studied for centuries in colleges from Cairo and Istanbul to Central Asia and Mughal India. ʿIṣām al-Dīn was born in the town of Isfarāyīn, in Khurāsān, where his father was a judge. He pursued his studies in Herat, at the time a major cultural and intellectual centre. He later taught