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JURJANI , the name of two Arabic scholars. 1. ABU BAKR 'ABDU-L-QAHIR IBN 'ABDUR-RAHMAN ULJURJANI (d. 1078) Arabian grammarian, belonged to the Persian school and wrote a famous grammar , the Kitb ul-'Awdmil ul-Mi'a or Kitdb Mi'at 'Amil, which was edited by Erpenius (Leiden, 1617), by Baillie (Calcutta, 1803), and by A. Lockett (Calcutta, 1814). Ten Arabic commentaries on this work
For other works see C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arabischen Litteratur (1898), i. 288. 2. 'ALI IBN MAHOMMED UL-JURJANI (1339-1414), Arabian encyclopaedic writer, was born
Astarabad
professor in Shiraz. When this city was plundered by Tim-Ur (1387) he removed to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death. Of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Ta'rifdt (Definitions
Leipzig
Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, &c.), and St Petersburg
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