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Yūsuf al-Maġribi (Arabic: يوسف المغربي) was a 17th-century traveler and lexicographer active in Cairo.He is the first author to treat Egyptian Arabic as a dialect distinct from Classical Arabic, compiling an Egyptian Arabic word list, the Raf` al-'iṣr `an kalām 'ahl miṣr (i.e. "apology of the Egyptian vernacular", literally "the lifting of the burden from the speech of the ...
Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn was the son of Abu'l-Husayn Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Maghribi, himself the grandson of the family's founder, Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Maghribi, a Persian official who had originally served at the Abbasid court of Baghdad as head of the diwan al-maghrib, the "Bureau of the West", whence the family's nisbah of "al-Maghribi". [2]
Ibn Said al-Maghribi wrote or compiled 'at least forty works on various branches of knowledge'. [8]Ibn Said's best known achievement was the completion of the fifteen-volume al-Mughrib fī ḥulā l-Maghrib ('The Extraordinary Book on the Adornments of the West'), which had been started over a century before by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥijārī (1106–55) at the behest of Ibn Said's great ...
Al-Samaw-al Polynomial. Illustration of the al-Bahir fi'l-Jabr "The Brilliant in Algebra" from the 12th century.. Al-Samawʾal ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī (Arabic: السموأل بن يحيى المغربي, c. 1130 – c. 1180), commonly known as Samawʾal al-Maghribi, was a mathematician, astronomer and physician. [1]
Example of Maghribi script in a Qur'anic manuscript. The Maghribi script, developed from Kufic in the Maghreb and al-Andalus, was the standard system for handwriting in Morocco. Most manuscripts are written in the Andalusi script, a school of Maghribi; however, Berber writing systems were commonly used in southern parts of the Kingdom.
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Al-Maghribī (meaning "from Maghreb") can refer to the following persons: Ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī al-Samawʾal, mathematician and astronomer of the 12th century. Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī (1220-1283), an Arab astronomer; Mahmud Sulayman al-Maghribi, former prime minister of Libya; Yusuf al-Maghribi, a 17th-century lexicographer active in ...
Abū 'Uthmān al-Maghrībī's Mausoleum. Abū 'Uthmān Sa'īd Bin Salām Al-Maghrībī (Persian: ابوعثمان مغربی) was an Egyptian Sufi scholar of the Kubruwi Order. [1] He was instructed in Sufism by Abū 'Alī al-Katib. He was the teacher of famous Asharite scholars, such as Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri. [2]