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Radi al-Din al-Saghani

رضيّ الدين الصَّغاني

Notable figure 577–650 AH / 1181–1252 CE · Source: خير الدين الزركلي، الأعلام، دار العلم للملايين، ج٢ ص٢١٤ (ترجمة «الرضيّ الصاغاني»)، على تراث

Affiliation

Lexicographer, the leading Arabic philologist of his age

Biography

Born in Lahore and raised in Ghazna, he travelled to Yemen, settled in Baghdad and died there; his body was taken to Mecca for burial. He compiled the great dictionary al-'Ubab, the six-volume al-Takmila as a supplement to al-Jawhari's Sihah, and the lexicon Majma' al-Bahrayn, along with shorter philological treatises: al-Shawarid fi al-Lughat, al-Addad on words with opposite meanings, and two studies of the word patterns fa'al and yaf'ul.