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See also:SIBAWAIHI [See also:Abu Bishr, or Abu-1 See also:Hasan`Amr See also:ibn`Uthman ibn Qanbar, known as SIBAWAIHI or SIBUY1] (c. 753-793) , Arabian grammarian, was by origin a See also:Persian and a freedman . Of his See also:early years nothing is known . At the See also:age of See also:thirty-two he went to See also:Basra, where he was a See also:pupil of the celebrated grammarian Khalil . Later he went to See also:Bagdad, but soon See also:left, owing to a dispute with the Kufan grammarian Kisk'i, and returned to See also:Persia, where See also:lie died at the age of about See also:forty . His See also:great See also:grammar of Arabic, known simply as The See also:Book, is not only the earliest systematic presentation of Arabic grammar, but is recognized among See also:Arabs as the most perfect . It is not always clear, but is very full and valuable for its many illustrations from the See also:Koran and the poets . The Book was published by H . See also:Derenbourg (2 vols., See also:Paris, 1881-1889), and a See also:German See also:translation, with extracts from the commentary of Sirafi (d . 978) and others, was published by G . See also:Jahn (See also:Berlin, 1895-1900) . (G . W .
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