Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi

Abū Manṣūr Mauhūb al-Jawālīqī (Arabic: أبو منصور الجواليقي‎) (April 1074–17 July 1144), Arab grammarian, was born in Baghdād, where he studied philology under (1030 - 1109) and became famous for his handwriting. In his later years he acted as Imam to the Abbāsid caliph Al-Muqtafi.

Works[]

• Kitāb al-Mu'arrab (كتاب المُعَرَّب), (tr. 'Explanation of Foreign Words used in Arabic').^[1] His chief work; published as edited text from an incomplete manuscript by Eduard Sachau (Leipzig, 1867). Many of the lacunae in this have been supplied from another manuscript by in the , xxxiii. 208 sqq.
• Al-Jawālīqī's Supplement to the Durrat ul-Ghawwas of Al-Hariri of Basra; published as Le Livre des locutions vicieuses, Arabic text with French introduction and notes by Hartwig Derenbourg, Morgenländische Forschungen (Leipzig, 1875), pp. 107–166.^[1]

See also[]

• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi a physician, philosopher, historian, Arabic grammarian.

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References[]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Jawālīqī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 294.