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• IBN

IBN DURAID [See also:

• ABU

Abu Bakr Mahommed ibn ul-I3asan ibn Duraid ul-Azdi] (837-934)  , Arabian poet and philologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BASRA (written also BUSRA, BASSORA and BASSORA)

Basra of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south Arabian stock . At his native See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place he was trained under various teachers, but fled in 871 to See also:

• OMAN

Oman at the 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 Basra was attacked by the negroes, known as the Zanj, under Muhallabi . After living twelve years in Oman he went to See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, and, under the See also:

• PROTECTION

protection of the See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor, `Abdallah See also:

• IBN

ibn Mahommed ibn Mikal, and his son, See also:

• ISMAIL (1830-1895)

Ismail, wrote his See also:

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

chief See also:

• WORKS

works . In 920 he went to See also:

• BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad, where he received a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension from the See also:

• CALIPH, CALIF

caliph Moqtadir . The Magsicra, a poem in praise of Ibn Mikal and his son, has been edited by A . Haitsma (1773) E . Scheidius (1786) and N . Boyesen (1828) . Various commentaries on the poem exist in MS . (cf . C . Brockelmann, Gesch. der ar .

Lit., i . 211 if., See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar, 1898) . The Jarnhara fi-l-Lugha is a large See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary written in See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian but not printed . Another See also:

• WORK

work is the Kitab ul-Ishtiqaq (" See also:

• BOOK

Book of See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

Etymology "), edited by F . Wustenfeld (See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, 1854) ; it was written in opposition to the See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-Arabian party to show the etymological connexion of the Arabian tribal names . (G . W .