ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kisāʾī

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ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kisāʾī was a prominent 8th–9th century Kufan scholar of Arabic grammar and one of the seven canonical readers of the Qur’an.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic grammarian
Muslim scholar
Qurʾan reader
person
qāriʾ
associatedWith Abbasid Caliphate
Kufan recitation tradition
birthPlace Kufa
deathDate 189 AH (approximate)
c. 804 CE
deathPlace Rayy
era 8th century
9th century
ethnicOrigin Persian
field Arabic linguistics
Qurʾanic sciences
tajwīd
floruit early 9th century
late 8th century
givenName ʿAlī
honorific Abū al-Ḥasan
influence Kufan school of Arabic grammar
later Qurʾan recitation traditions
knownFor Arabic grammar
Qurʾanic recitation
being one of the seven canonical readers of the Qurʾan
teaching at the Abbasid court
language Arabic
memberOf seven canonical readers of the Qurʾan
name al-Kisāʾī
linked to: Al-Kisāʾī
notableWork Kitāb al-Qirāʾāt
works on Arabic grammar (attributed)
occupation Qurʾan reciter
grammarian
philologist
teacher
patronymic ibn ʿAbd Allāh
linked to: ibn Abdullah

ibn Ḥamza
linked to: ibn Hamza
position tutor of the Abbasid princes al-Amīn and al-Maʾmūn
region Iraq
Kufa
religion Islam
schoolOf Kufan school of grammar
studentOf Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ
linked to: Abu Amr ibn al-Ala

Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb
linked to: Yunus ibn Habib

ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar al-Thaqafī
Ḥamza al-Zayyāt
teacherOf Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb (as colleague/associate in grammar tradition)
al-Farrāʾ
linked to: Al-Farrāʾ

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Al-Kisāʾī fullName ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kisāʾī
tutor of al-Maʾmūn fullName ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza al-Kisāʾī
linked to: ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kisāʾī