Abu Bakr az-Zubaydi

Abū Bakr az-Zubaydī (), also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Madḥīj al-Faqīh and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan az-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī (), held the title Akhbār al-fuquhā and wrote books on topics including philology, biography, history, philosophy, law, lexicology, and hadith.

Life

Az-Zubaydī was a native of Seville, al-Andalus (present-day Spain), whose ancestor, Bishr ad-Dākhil ibn Ḥazm of Yemeni origin, had come with the Umayyads to al-Andalus from Ḥimṣ in the Levant (Syria). Az-Zubaydī moved to Córdoba, the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate, to study under Abū ‘Alī al-Qālī. His scholarship on the philologist Sībawayh’s grammar, Al-Kitāb, led to his appointment as tutor to the son of the humanist caliph Ḥakam II, the crown prince Hishām II. At the Caliph’s encouragement, az-Zubaydī composed many books on philology, and biographies of philologists and lexicographers. He became qāḍī of Seville, where he died in 989.

Works

• Al-Istidrāk ‘alā SÄ«bawayh fÄ« Kitāb al-abniya wa’z-ziyāda ‘alā mā awradahu fÄ«hi muhadhdhab (Rome, 1890) (Baghdād, 1970), (Riyadh, 1987)
• Ṭabaqāt an-NaḥwÄ«yÄ«n wa-al-LughawÄ«yÄ«n () ‘Categories of Grammarians and Linguists’; (973–6) Biographical dictionary of the early philologists and lexicographers of the Basran, Kufan and Baghdād schools; almost contemporaneous with Ibn an-Nadim's Al-Fihrist. Both works bear witness to the emergence of the science of Arabic philology, and to the close intellectual contact between the Abbāsid and Umayyad seats of power at Baghdād and Cordoba, respectively. (Cairo, 1954)
• Akhbār al-fuquhā; al-muta’akhkhirÄ«n min ahl Qurá¹­uba; History of the jurisconsults of Córdoba
• Amthilat al-abniya fÄ« Kitāb SÄ«bawayh TafsÄ«r AbÄ« Bakr al-ZubaydÄ«
• Basá¹­ al-Bāri’
• Al-ghāya fi ‘l-arūḍ
• Ikhtiṣār; Selections from Bukhārī’s á¹¢aḥīḥ in Francisco Pons y Boigues
• Istidrāk al-ghalaá¹­ al-wāqi’ fÄ« Kitāb al-‘Ayn ()
• Laḥn al-‘awāmm (); dialectical speech errors; ed., R. 'Abd al-Tawwāb, Cairo 1964.
• Mukhtaá¹£ar al-Ayn () ‘Selections from Al-Ayn of KhalÄ«l ibn Aḥmad’ (before 976)
• Al-Mustadrak min az-ziyāda fÄ« Kitab al-Bāri’ alā Kitāb al-‘Ayn
• Ar-radd ‘alā Ibn Masarra, or Hatk sutÅ«r al-mulḥidÄ«n
• Risālat al-intiṣār li ‘l-KhalÄ«l
• At-TahdhÄ«b bi-muḥkam at-tartÄ«b () from the Laḥn al-ʻāmmah
• At-TaqrÄ«z
• Al-wāḍīḥ fÄ« ‘ilm al-‘arabiyya (); grammar after SÄ«bawayh (Cairo, 1975), ('Ammān, 1976)
• Az-ziyadat ‘alā kitāb 'iá¹£laḥ laḥn al-Ê»aāmmah bi-al-Andalus ()

See also

• List of Arab scientists and scholars

References

Bibliography