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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

718 - 790

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Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن الخليل بن أحمد بن عمرو بن تمام الفراهيدي الأزدي اليحمدي; 718 – 786 CE), known as al-Farāhīdī, or al-Khalīl, was an Arab philologist, lexicographer and leading grammarian of Basra in Iraq. He made the first dictionary of the Arabic language – and the oldest extant dictionary – Kitab al-'Ayn (Arabic: كتاب العين "The Source") – introduced the now standard harakat (vowel marks in Arabic script) system, and was instrumental in the early development of ʿArūḍ (study of prosody), musicology and poetic metre. His linguistic theories influenced the development of Persian, Turkish, Kurdish and Urdu prosody. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi has received more than 241,200 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi is the 1,386th most popular writer (up from 1,452nd in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Iraq (down from 137th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Iraqi Writer.

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  • 240k

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 1,386 out of 7,302. Before him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Mario Benedetti, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Aleksandr Kuprin, and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. After him are Mahadevi Varma, Rodolphe Töpffer, Don DeLillo, François de Malherbe, Robin Hobb, and Magda Szabó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 718, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 5. Before him are Abu Muslim, Constantine V, Ibrahim ibn Adham, and Empress Kōken. After him are Lupus II of Gascony, and Ōtomo no Yakamochi. Among people deceased in 790, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 1. After him is Chorso.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 142 out of 384. Before him are Al-Mustansir (1192), Al-Muti (914), Ibn al-Nadim (1000), Zubaidah bint Ja`far (766), Pacorus II (50), and Al-Muttaqi (908). After him are Ahmad ibn Yusuf (835), Al-Qa'im (1001), Uday Hussein (1964), Sin-shumu-lishir (-700), Ar-Radi (909), and Ninus (null).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 12. Before him are Berossus (-400), Ibn al-Jawzi (1116), Al-Mutanabbi (915), Ibn Sirin (653), Ibn Khallikan (1211), and Ibn al-Nadim (1000). After him are Al-Hariri of Basra (1054), Al-Sharif al-Radi (970), Al-Farazdaq (641), Aphrahat (280), Abu-l-'Atahiya (748), and Al-Asmaʿi (740).

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