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ʿAbd al-Qahir al-Jurjani: «Persian in origin, of Jurjan by home»
عبد القاهر الجرجانيّ: «فارسيّ الأصل، جرجانيّ الدار»
al-Qifti says that ʿAbd al-Qahir was «Persian in origin, of Jurjan by home». He learned grammar in Jurjan from the nephew of Abu ʿAli al-Farisi, then taught there, and people travelled to study with him. In his two books, Dalaʾil al-Iʿjaz and Asrar al-Balagha, he explained that the beauty of speech lies in its composition (naẓm) – the ordering of its words and how they bear on one another – not in the words alone.
- In brief
- He stayed in Jurjan, people travelled to him, and he laid the foundations of Arabic rhetoric
- Outside Arabic
- Dalāʾil al-Iʿjāz · Asrār al-Balāgha
«عبد القاهر بن عبد الرحمن الجرجانيّ أبو بكر النحويّ، فارسيّ الأصل، جرجانيّ الدار، عالم بالنحو والبلاغة … وتصدّر بجرجان، وحُثّت إليه الرحال.»
The titles of the two books and the idea of naẓm come from outside the source; both are well known.
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