ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Tattawī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Perry, John R.
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ʿAbd al-Rashīd b. Sayyid ʿAbd al-Ghafūr al-Ḥusaynī al-Madanī al-Tattawī was an Indian grammarian and lexicographer of Persian of the eleventh/seventeenth century. He was born of a Medinan Sayyid lineage in Sind, at Tatta on the Indus (now in Pakistan), probably toward the end of the tenth/sixteenth century, and lived at least until 1069/1658-9 (Dabīrsiyāqī, 150; Ähädov, 7). He gained a wide reputation as a scholar and was apparently patronised by the Mughal court. In 1046/1636-7 he compiled the Muntakhab