Abu 'Ubaida
Also recorded as Abu Ubaida · Abu Ubayda Ma'mar ben al-Muthanna · Ma’mar ibn ul-Muthanna
Abu 'Ubaida
- Born
- 728 · Basra.
- Died
- 825 · Basra.
- Occupation
- philologist · historian · grammarian · poet
- Known for
- Majaz al-Quran · Sharh Naqa'id Jarir wa al-farazdaq
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Abu 'Ubaida born at Basra.
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Abu 'Ubaida died at Basra.
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- 1.Günter Lüling, A Challenge to Islam for Reformation: The Rediscovery and Reliable Reconstruction of a Comprehensive Pre-Islamic Christian Hymnal Hidden in the Koran Under Earliest Islamic Reinterpretations, pg. 31. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2003.
- 2.Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, Studies on the Civilization of Islam, pg. 67. Volume 21 of Routledge library editions: Islam. London: Routledge, 2013.
- 3.Goltein, Shelomo. Jews and Arabs A Concise History of Their Social and Cultural Relations.
- 4.Hoyland, Robert. In God's Path The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire.
- 5.Ibn Khallikan, Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch, vol. 4, pg. 586. Trns. William McGuckin de Slane. London: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1871.
- 6.M.G. Carter, Sibawayh, pg. 22. Part of the Makers of Islamic Civilization series. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.
- 7.Housni Alkhateeb Shehada, Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam, pg. 132. Volume 11 of Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012.
- 8.Rowson, Everett K. Esḥāq Mawṣelī. Encyclopædia Iranica. Brill Publishers. 2012.
- 9.Abu Ubaida. 81.
- 10.Anwar G. Chejne, The Arabic Language: Its Role in History, pg. 43. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969.
- 11.Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, Studies, pg. 68.
- 12.Kees Versteegh, The Arabic Language, pg. 61. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.
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