LINGUIST

Sibawayh

760 - 797

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Sibawayh (Arabic: سِيبَوَيْهِي Sībawayhi or Sībawayh; Persian: سِیبُویه‎ Sībūyah [siːbuːˈja]; c. 760–796), whose full name is Abu Bishr Amr ibn Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Basri (أَبُو بِشْر عَمْرو بْن عُثْمَان بْن قَنْبَر ٱلْبَصْرِيّ, ’Abū Bishr ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Qanbar al-Baṣrī), was a Persian leading grammarian of Basra and author of the earliest book on Arabic grammar. His famous unnamed work, referred to as Al-Kitāb, or "The Book", is a five-volume seminal discussion of the Arabic language.Ibn Qutaybah, the earliest extant source, in his biographical entry under Sibawayh simply wrote: He is Amr ibn Uthman, and he was mainly a grammarian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sibawayh has received more than 250,296 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Sibawayh is the 28th most popular linguist (down from 26th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Iran (up from 140th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Linguist.

Sibawayh is most famous for his Arabic grammar book, "Kitab Sibawayh".

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sibawayhs by language

Over the past year Sibawayh has had the most page views in the with 135,385 views, followed by English (35,482), and Persian (29,459). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (279.69%), Malay (74.73%), and Kurdish (Sorani) (52.93%)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Sibawayh ranks 28 out of 214. Before him are Johann Martin Schleyer, Johann Christoph Adelung, Ignác Goldziher, William Jones, Lucien Tesnière, and Nikolai Trubetzkoy. After him are Pompeu Fabra, Franz Miklosich, Nicholas Marr, Michel Bréal, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, and Alexandre de Rhodes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 760, Sibawayh ranks 2. Before him is Nikephoros I. After him are Ibrahim al-Nazzam, and Æthelred I of Northumbria. Among people deceased in 797, Sibawayh ranks 2. Before him is Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak. After him are Bermudo I of Asturias, and Maurizio Galbaio.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Sibawayh ranks 132 out of 631. Before him are Sultan Husayn (1668), Tahmasp II (1704), Istakhri (850), Anastasius of Persia (550), Artavasdes II of Armenia (-100), and Mulla Sadra (1571). After him are Jahan Shah (1397), Piruz Nahavandi (700), Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252), Ali Shariati (1933), `Abdu'l-Bahá (1844), and Arsaces I of Parthia (-280).

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Among LINGUISTS In Iran

Among linguists born in Iran, Sibawayh ranks 1. After him are Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (1879).

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