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Saʿd al-Din al-Taftazani (Masʿud ibn ʿUmar)

سعد الدين التفتازاني (مسعود بن عمر)

Notable figure 722–792 AH / 1322–1390 CE · Source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, «TEFTÂZÂNλ (born Safar 722/February 1322 in Teftâzân, Nesâ province of Khurasan; d. 792/1390 in Samarkand; el-Muṭavvel, el-Muḫtaṣar, Şerḥu’t-Taṣrîfi’l-ʿİzzî) · Second source: Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli, al-Aʿlam, vol. 7, p. 219 (entry «السعد التفتازاني»; born in Taftazan, Khurasan; Sharh al-Tasrif al-ʿIzzi his first work, written at sixteen; al-Mutawwal, al-Mukhtasar), via turath.io

Affiliation

Rhetorician; author of al-Mutawwal and al-Mukhtasar

Biography

Born in Taftazan in the Nasa district of Khurasan, he wrote his first book, a commentary on al-Zanjani's morphology primer (Sharh al-Tasrif al-ʿIzzi), at sixteen. His two commentaries on Talkhis al-Miftah – al-Mutawwal and al-Mukhtasar – became famous works for the study of Arabic rhetoric.