Ibn Khalawayh

Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Hamadhani, better known simply as Ibn Khalawayh (ابن خالويه; 890s – 980/81), was a 10th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and Quranic exegesis. He was born in Hamadan. He was active at the court of Sayf al-Dawla, the Hamdanid ruler of Syria, at Aleppo.

Ibn Khalawayh was a famous scholar during his lifetime, and assembled a circle of disciples in regular literary reunions. He was active in the period of hectic philological activity towards a canonical text of the Qur'an. His grammatical opinions were eclectic, in between the major opposition between the grammatical schools of Basra and Kufa.

References

• Spitaler, A. (1971). "Ibn K̲h̲ālawayh". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 824–825. OCLC 495469525.
• W. C. Brice, An Historical atlas of Islam, 1981,
• David Larsen, introduction to Ibn Khalawayh's Names of the Lion (Wave Books, 2017), vii-xiv.

Further reading

• Bernards, Monique (2022). "Ibn Khālawayh". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.