Abū Manṣūr Mauhūb al-Jawālīqī (Arabic: أبو منصور الجواليقي) (April 1074–17 July 1144) was an Arab grammarian born in Baghdād, where he studied philology under Khātib al-Tibrizī (1030 - 1109) and became famous for his handwriting. In his later years he acted as Imam to the Abbāsid caliph Al-Muqtafi.

Works

• Kitāb al-Mu'arrab (كتاب المُعَرَّب), (tr. 'Explanation of Foreign Words used in Arabic').^[1] His chief work; published as edited text from an incomplete manuscript by Eduard Sachau (Leipzig, 1867). Many of the lacunae in this have been supplied from another manuscript by W. Spitta in the Journal of the German Oriental Society, xxxiii. 208 sqq.
• Al-Jawālīqī's Supplement to the Durrat ul-Ghawwas of Al-Hariri of Basra; published as Le Livre des locutions vicieuses, Arabic text with French introduction and notes by Hartwig Derenbourg, Morgenländische Forschungen (Leipzig, 1875), pp. 107–166.^[1]

See also

• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, a physician, philosopher, historian and grammarian.

Notes

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Jawālīqī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 294.