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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 based on 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 224,661 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi is the 1,455th most popular writer (down from 1,439th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 121st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Iraqi Writer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

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  • 3.77

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 1,455 out of 5,755Before him are César Vallejo, Jules Laforgue, Salvian, Fulcher of Chartres, J. G. Ballard, and Vasil Bykaŭ. After him are Quintus Smyrnaeus, Alexander Radishchev, Philip José Farmer, Ruy González de Clavijo, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, and Fritz Gerlich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 718, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 4Before him are Abu Muslim, Constantine V, 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

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 138 out of 338Before him are Al-Mu'tazz (847), Al-Mawardi (974), Ovadia Yosef (1920), Adil Abdul-Mahdi (1942), Alulim (null), and Ishbi-Erra (-2100). After him are Manishtushu (null), Ar-Radi (909), Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935), Nuri al-Said (1888), At-Ta'i (932), and Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

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