لسان العرب

Ibn Manzur (1232 AD - 1311 AD) (630 AH - 711 AH) is an author, historian, and scholar of Islamic jurisprudence and the Arabic language. One of his most famous books is the dictionary of Lisan al-Arab, which is Muhammad bin Makram bin Ali Abu al-Fadl Jamal al-Din Ibn Manzur al-Ansari al-Ruwaifai al-Afriqi, born in the month of Muharram in (630 AH / 1232 CE). In Egypt. It is considered a descendant of Ruwaifaa bin Thabit al-Ansari, a student at the hands of Abd al-Rahman bin al-Tafil, Murtaza bin Hatim, Yusuf al-Makhili, Abu al-Hasan Ali bin al-Muqayr al-Baghdadi, and the Sabunian scholar. He served in the Construction Bureau in Cairo, then the Guardian of the Judiciary in Tripoli. He was blinded in the last years of his life and died in Egypt in the month of Sha`ban (711 AH / 1311 AD). His writings He worked on summarizing and summarizing an enormous number of long literature books, and Ibn Hajar said about him: “He was tempted in short the lengthy books of literature.” Safadi says: “I do not know in literature a long book unless he shortened it, and his son Qutbuddin told me that he left five hundred volumes with his handwriting. ». His most famous and largest work is Lisan al-Arab, twenty volumes, in which he collected the mothers of language books, and he almost sing about them all.