Ibn Durayd

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Durayd was born in Basra around 837, into a family of the Azd tribe originating from Oman. In 871, fleeing the Zanj revolt and the sack of his city, he went to Oman, where he stayed some twelve years. After a return to Basra, he moved to Fars under the protection of the governor Abd Allah ibn Mikal, whose son he taught, and there dictated his great dictionary, the Jamhara. Settled in Baghdad in 920, pensioned by the caliph al-Muqtadir, he died there in 933.

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