Firuzabadi: Difference between revisions

Firuzabadi, was of [[Persians|Persian]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Alastair |authorlink=Alistair Hamilton|title=Arabs and Arabists: Selected Articles |date=2022 |publisher=Brill |page=253}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Baalbaki |first1=Ramzi |authorlink=Ramzi Baalbaki|title=The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition: From the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century |date=2014 |publisher=Brill |page=391}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Versteegh |first1=Kees |author1-link=Kees Versteegh |title=Landmarks in Linguistic Thought III: The Arabic Linguistic Tradition |date=1997 |publisher=Psychology Press |page=33}}</ref> origin, and was born in [[Kazerun]], [[Fars Province|Fars]], [[Iran|Persia]], and educated in [[Shiraz]], [[Wasit]], [[Baghdad]] and [[Damascus]]. He spent ten years in [[Jerusalem]]<ref>[https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/firuzabadi-s-al-qamus-al-muhit/SwFS5bJVWxyzgw?hl=en "Firuzabadi's al-Qamus al-Muhit", in The Khalili Collections]</ref> before travelling in [[Western Asia]] and [[Egypt]],<ref name=EB1911/> and settling in 1368, in [[Mecca]] for almost three decades. From Mecca he visited [[Delhi]] in the 1380s. He left Mecca in the mid-1390s and returned to [[Baghdad]], then Shiraz (where he was received by [[Timur]]) and finally travelled on to [[Ta'izz]]<ref name=EB1911/> in [[History of Yemen|Yemen]]. In 1395, he was appointed chief ''[[qadi]]'' (''judge'') of Yemen<ref name=EB1911/> by [[Al-Ashraf Umar II]], who had summoned him from India a few years before to teach in his capital. Al-Ashraf's marriage to a daughter of Firūzābādī added to Firuzabadi's prestige and power in the royal court.<ref>Introduction of Bassair Dhawi Tamyeez</ref>