Ibn Malik, Grammarian of the Alfiyyah

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ScholarGrammarian of the Alfiyyah

Ibn Malikابن مالك

Approximate dateDamascus

An Andalusian grammarian whose thousand-line poem on grammar is still memorised.

He left Jaen in al-Andalus for the east and taught in Aleppo and Damascus. His Alfiyyah puts the whole of Arabic grammar into about a thousand rhyming lines, and generations of students have learned it by heart.

What grew out of it?

The Alfiyyah and its commentaries are core texts of traditional madrasas.

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