Al-Mubarrad
Mubarrad or Mobarrad, full name Abū-l ‘Abbās Maḥommed ibn Yazīd ul-Azdī,[1] (March 25, 826, Basra - October, 898, Baghdad) was an Arab grammarian.[1] After studying grammar in that city, he was called to the court of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil at Samarra in 860. When the caliph was killed in 861, he went to Baghdad, remaining there most of his life as a teacher.
Al-Mubarrad became the leader of the Basran grammarians against the Kufan school.[1] His judgment, however, was independent, as is shown by his attack on some points in the grammar of Sibawayh, the greatest writer of his own school.[1] He died at Baghdad in 898.[1]
His main work is the grammatical one known as the Al-Kamil ("The Perfect One"), which has been edited by W. Wright (Leipzig, 1864 seq.), and published at Constantinople (1869) and Cairo (1891).[1] It was also edited more recently by Muhammad Dali (Beirut, 1406/1986). Two or three other works exist in manuscript; cf. C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, i.109 (Weimar, 1898).[1]
Al-Mubarrad's writings are considered to be the first source recounting the story that Shahrbanu or Shahr Banu — eldest daughter of Yazdegerd III, the last Emperor of the Sassanid dynasty of Persia/Iran — had married Hussain ibn Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson and the third Shia Imam and that she gave birth to Ali Zayn al Abidin (the fourth Shia Imam).
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mubarrad". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 954.
