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al-Akhfash al-Awsat (Saʿid ibn Masʿada al-Balkhi)

الأخفش الأوسط (سعيد بن مسعدة البلخي)

Notable figure d. c. 215 AH / 830 CE · Source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, «AHFEŞ el-EVSAT» (originally from Balkh, lived in Basra; d. 210, 215 or 221; Meʿâni’l-Ḳurʾân, Kitâbü’l-Ḳavâfî, Kitâbü’l-ʿArûż, Kitâbü’l-Evsaṭ fi’n-naḥv) · Second source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, «BELH» (Balkh: a city and province in northern Afghanistan)

Affiliation

Grammarian and prosodist; Kitab al-Qawafi, Kitab al-ʿArud

Biography

Originally from Balkh, he lived in Basra and became a leading figure of its school of grammar; he read Sibawayh's al-Kitab with al-Kisaʾi. He wrote Maʿani al-Qurʾan on the grammar of its wording, al-Awsat fi al-nahw, Kitab al-Qawafi on rhyme and Kitab al-ʿArud on prosody.