Abū Bakr al-Zubaydī
Biographical assessment of grammarians, mentioned in the reception of Sībawayh.
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Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī
Kitāb al-muʿammarīn min al-ʿArab, a work about long-lived Arabs shown through a manuscript copy.
Abū Ḥayyān al-Gharnāṭī
Arabic grammatical scholarship and the reception of Sībawayh’s al-Kitāb.
Abū Muḍar Maḥmūd al-Iṣfahānī
Taught syntax and literature to al-Zamakhsharī.
Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley
English translations of classical Islamic texts and work making Islamic learning accessible to English readers.
Al-Kisāʾī
Arabic grammar and grammatical debate, discussed alongside Sībawayh.
Al-Zamakhsharī
Linguistic and rhetorical interpretation of the Qur’an in al-Kashshāf.
Asif Meherali
Arabic teaching in Toronto and online, commemorated in an obituary post.
Geoffrey Roper
Research on manuscripts, printing, and the dissemination of scientific knowledge in Islamic societies.
Gerard of Cremona
Latin translation of Arabic scientific writing, including work attributed to al-Nayrīzī.
Hamid Choi
Korean translations of the Qur’an and Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, and Islamic authorship.
Ibn Juzayy
Literary preparation of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s travel account from his dictated recollections.
Ignaz Goldziher
Edited al-Sijistānī’s work using photographs of a Cambridge manuscript, according to the source caption.
John of Seville
Latin translation of al-Farghānī’s astronomical textbook, dated to 1135 in the collected posts.
Maḥmūd al-Kāshgharī
The Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk dictionary, examples of Turkic poetry, and a map of Turkic-speaking regions.
Muḥammad Ma Jian
Translation of the Qur’an into Chinese.
Nakata Kaori
Japanese translations of Tafsīr al-Jalālayn and other classical Islamic texts.
Omar ibn Said
An Arabic autobiography documenting his life after enslavement in the United States.
Robert of Chester
Latin translation of al-Khwārizmī’s algebra, dated to 1145 in the source.
Sībawayh
Al-Kitāb and the systematization of Arabic grammar.
Umar Mita
Umar Mita learned languages to help people understand one another. His Japanese translation of the Qur’an was published in 1972 after years of study and revision.
ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Bewley
Co-translated the Qur’an into English with Aisha Bewley, according to her collected biography.