See also:

• FAIRUZABADY [Abu-t-Tahir ibn Ibrahim Majd ud-Din ul-Fairuzabadi] (1329-1414)

FAIRUZABADY [See also:

• ABU

Abu-t-Tahir See also:

• IBN

ibn See also:

• IBRAHIM

Ibrahim Majd ud-Din ul-Fairuzabadi] (1329-1414)  , Arabian lexicographer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Karazin near See also:

• SHIRAZ

Shiraz . His student days were spent in Shiraz, Wasit, See also:

• BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad and See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus . He taught for ten years in See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem, and afterwards travelled in western See also:

• ASIA

Asia and See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt . In 1368 he settled in See also:

• MECCA (Arab. Makkah)

Mecca, where he remained for fifteen years . He next visited See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India and spent some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in See also:

• DELHI, DEHLI

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 (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• CADI (g¢di)

cadi (qadi) of See also:

• YEMEN (Yaman)

Yemen, married a daughter of the See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan, and died at Zabid in 1414 . During this last See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of his See also:

• LIFE

life he converted his See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house at Mecca into a school of Malikite See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law and established three teachers in it . He wrote a huge lexicographical See also:

• WORK

work of 6o or Too volumes uniting the dictionaries of See also:

• IBN

Ibn Sida, a See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish philologist (d . 1066), and of Sajani (d . 1252) . A See also:

• DIGEST

digest of or an See also:

• EXTRACT (from Lat. extrahere, to draw out)

extract from this last work is his famous See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary al-Qamus (" the Ocean "), which has been published in Egypt, See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople and India, has been translated into See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish and See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian, and has itself been the basis of several later dictionaries .

(G . W .