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See also:FAIRUZABADY [See also:Abu-t-Tahir See also:ibn See also:Ibrahim Majd ud-Din ul-Fairuzabadi] (1329-1414) , Arabian lexicographer, was See also:born at Karazin near See also:Shiraz . His student days were spent in Shiraz, Wasit, See also:Bagdad and See also:Damascus . He taught for ten years in See also:Jerusalem, and afterwards travelled in western See also:Asia and See also:Egypt . In 1368 he settled in See also:Mecca, where he remained for fifteen years . He next visited See also:India and spent some See also:time in See also:Delhi, then remained in Mecca another ten years . The following three years were spent in Bagdad, in Shiraz (where he was received by Timur), and in Ta'iz . In 1395 he was appointed See also:chief See also:cadi (qadi) of See also:Yemen, married a daughter of the See also:sultan, and died at Zabid in 1414 . During this last See also:period of his See also:life he converted his See also:house at Mecca into a school of Malikite See also:law and established three teachers in it . He wrote a huge lexicographical See also:work of 6o or Too volumes uniting the dictionaries of See also:Ibn Sida, a See also:Spanish philologist (d . 1066), and of Sajani (d . 1252) . A See also:digest of or an See also:extract from this last work is his famous See also:dictionary al-Qamus (" the Ocean "), which has been published in Egypt, See also:Constantinople and India, has been translated into See also:Turkish and See also:Persian, and has itself been the basis of several later dictionaries . (G . W . |
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