Niftawayh

Niftawayh
Niftawayh
Title	The Grammarian
Personal life
Born	858 or 864; Wasit
Died	935 (aged 76–77); Baghdad
Resting place	Kufa
Region	Mesopotamia
Main interest(s)	Arabic grammar, Arabic literature
Occupation	Linguist, Poet, Historian
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Zahiri
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Dawud al-Zahiri, Sibawayh;
	Influenced Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri, Al-Masudi;

Abu Abdillah Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin 'Urfah bin Sulaiman bin al-Mughira bin Habib bin al-Muhallab bin Abi Sufra al-Azdi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله إبراهيم بن محمّد بن عرفة العَتَكيّ الأزديّ) better known as Niftawayh, was a Medieval Muslim scholar. He was considered to be the best writer of his time,^[1] in addition to an expert in Muslim prophetic tradition and comparative readings of the Qur'an.^[2]

^ Al-Masudi's The Meadows of Gold, translated by Aloys Sprenger. Vol. 1, pg. 20. Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Sold by W.H. Allen and Co. (now Virgin Books), Leadenhall Street, and B. Duprat, Paris. Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis. London: Garrison and Co. Printers, St Martin's Lane.
^ Bencheikh, Omar. Nifṭawayh. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. Accessed 1 January 2013.

[meadows-1] Al-Masudi's The Meadows of Gold, translated by Aloys Sprenger. Vol. 1, pg. 20. Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Sold by W.H. Allen and Co. (now Virgin Books), Leadenhall Street, and B. Duprat, Paris. Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis. London: Garrison and Co. Printers, St Martin's Lane.

[omar-2] Bencheikh, Omar. Nifṭawayh. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. Accessed 1 January 2013.

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