Abū Riyāsh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Abū Riyāsh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
van Gelder, Geert Jan

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1059752
Doc. NO	:	ALei149
Main Entry	:	van Gelder, Geert Jan
Title & Author	:	Abū Riyāsh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ van Gelder, Geert Jan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(350 words)
Abstract	:	Abū Riyāsh Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Shaybānī al-Qaysī (d. 339/950–1), was a rāwī (transmitter of poetry), philologist, and poet. Born in al-Yamāma, he settled in Basra. Originally a soldier and later active as a civil servant charged with levying duties on ships at ʿAbbādān, he became well known for his knowledge of Arabic language, early poetry, and genealogy. He is also said to have memorised five thousand folios of lexicography and twenty thousand lines of poetry. He spoke with a Bedouin accent, had a loud voice,
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei149.pdf