TEZPUR, or TEJPUR  , a town of British India, the administrative headquarters of Darrang district, Eastern Bengal and Assam, on the right bank of the Brahmaputra . Pop . (Igor) 5047 . It is the centre of a flourishing tea industry, and contains many houses of English residents . Communications are maintained by river steamer, while a light railway runs northward through the tea-growing tract . THA'ALIBI [Abu Mansur `Abd ul-Malik ibn Mahommed ibn Ismail uth-Tha'alibil (961-1038), Arabian philologist, was born in Nishapur, and is said to have been at one time a furrier . Although he wrote prose and verse of his own, he was most famous for his anthologies and collections of epigrams . Like many other Arabian writers, he does not always distinguish between his own and other people's work . Of the twenty-nine works known to have been written by him, the most famous is his Kitdb Yatimat ud-Dahr, on the poets of his own and earlier times, arranged according to the countries of the poets, and containing valuable extracts (published at Damascus, 4 vols., 1887) . Another of his works, the Kitdb Fiqh ul-Lugha, is lexicographical, the words being arranged in classes . It has been published at Paris (1861), Cairo (1867), and Beirut (1885, incomplete) . For his other works see C .

Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur, vol. i . (

Weimar, 1898), pp . 284-86 . (G . W .