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• ABU

Abu Bakr Mahommed ibn ul-I3asan ibn Duraid ul-Azdi] (837-934)  , Arabian poet and philologist, was born at Basra of south Arabian stock . At his native place he was trained under various teachers, but fled in 871 to Oman at the time Basra was attacked by the negroes, known as the Zanj, under Muhallabi . After living twelve years in Oman he went to Persia, and, under the protection of the governor, `Abdallah ibn Mahommed ibn Mikal, and his son, Ismail, wrote his chief works . In 920 he went to Bagdad, where he received a pension from the 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.,

Weimar, 1898) . The Jarnhara fi-l-Lugha is a large dictionary written in Persian but not printed . Another work is the Kitab ul-Ishtiqaq (" Book of Etymology "), edited by F . Wustenfeld (Gottingen, 1854) ; it was written in opposition to the anti-Arabian party to show the etymological connexion of the Arabian tribal names . (G . W .