Biography:Ibn Jinni

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Short description: Arabic scholar and grammarian

Abū l-Fatḥ ʿUthmān ibn Jinnī, best known as Ibn Jinnī (c. 932–1002), was a specialist on Arabic grammar, a philologist, and a philosopher of language. He was born in Mosul to a Greek Christian slave of a certain Sulayman ibn Fahd ibn Ahmad al-Azdi.[1]

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