JURJANI  , the name of two Arabic scholars . 1 .

ABU BAKR 'ABDU-L-QAHIR IBN 'ABDUR-RAHMAN ULJURJANI (d . 1078) Arabian grammarian, belonged to the Persian school and wrote a famous grammar, the Kit¢b ul-'Awdmil ul-Mi'a or Kitdb Mi'at 'Amil, which was edited by Erpenius (Leiden, 1617), by Baillie (Calcutta, 1803), and by A . Lockett (Calcutta, 1814) . Ten Arabic commentaries on this work exist in MS., also two Turkish . It has been versified five times and translated into Persian . Another of his grammatical works on which several commentaries have been written is the Kitab Jumal fin-Nahw . For other works see C . Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arabischen Litteratur (1898), i . 288 . 2 .

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ALI IBN MAHOMMED UL-JURJANI (1339-1414), Arabian encyclopaedic writer, was born near Astarabad and became professor in Shiraz . When this city was plundered by Tim-Ur (1387) he removed to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death . Of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Ta'rifdt (Definitions), which was edited by G . Flugel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, &c.), and St Petersburg (1897) . (G . W .