Ibn al-Sikkit (802–858)

Born 802 CE, died 858 CE.

Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb Ibn as-Sikkīt (ابو يوسف يعقوب ابن السكيت) was a Persian philologist tutor to the son of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil and a great grammarian and scholar of poetry of the al-Kūfah school. He was punished on the orders of the caliph and died between 857 and 861.

Text from the Wikipedia article Yaqub_Ibn_as-Sikkit, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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