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JURJANI , the name of two Arabic scholars. 1. See also:

ABU BAKR 'ABDU-L-QAHIR See also:IBN 'ABDUR-RAHMAN ULJURJANI (d. 1078) Arabian grammarian, belonged to the See also:Persian school and wrote a famous See also:grammar, the See also:Kit¢b ul-'Awdmil ul-Mi'a or Kitdb Mi'at 'Amil, which was edited by See also:Erpenius (See also:Leiden, 1617), by See also:Baillie (See also:Calcutta, 1803), and by A. Lockett (Calcutta, 1814). Ten Arabic commentaries on this See also:work exist in MS., also two See also:Turkish. It has been versified five times and translated into Persian. Another of his grammatical See also:works on which several commentaries have been written is the Kitab Jumal fin-Nahw. For other works see C. Brockelmann's Gesch. der Arabischen Litteratur (1898), i. 288. 2.

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ALI IBN MAHOMMED UL-JURJANI (1339-1414), Arabian encyclopaedic writer, was See also:born near See also:Astarabad and became See also:professor in See also:Shiraz. When this See also:city was plundered by Tim-Ur (1387) he removed to See also:Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his See also:death. Of his See also:thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the Ta'rifdt (See also:Definitions), which was edited by G. See also:Flugel (See also:Leipzig, 1845), published also in See also:Constantinople (1837), See also:Cairo (1866, &c.), and St See also:Petersburg (1897). (G. W.

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