al-ʿAmīdī, Abū Saʿīd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bauer, Thomas
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Abū Saʿīd (or Abū Saʿd) Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-ʿAmīdī (d. probably 5 Jumādā II 443/14 October 1051) was a littérateur and literary critic of Fāṭimid Egypt. A trained philologist and grammarian, he served in the Fāṭimid chancellery of Cairo and reached the peak of his career during the reign of the caliph al-Mustanṣir bi-llāh (r. 427-87/1035-94), when he held the office of head of the dīwān al-inshāʾ , between Ṣafar 432/October 1040 and Jumādā II 436/December 1044-January 1045.