Ibn Ajurrum

ابن آجروم (Known as "Ibn Adjurrum")

Grammarian, Jurist, Scholastic Author of Al-Ajurrumiyya

Born 1273

Fez, Morocco

Passed Away 1323 Fez, Morocco

Lifespan 50 years old

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"Words are the vessels of thought; master their inflection and truth will not escape you."

Archival Overview

Sanhaja Berber grammarian and jurist of Fez whose concise grammatical manual, Al-Ajurrumiyya, became the most universally studied introduction to classical Arabic grammar for seven centuries.

Biographical Record

Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Sanhaji, known as Ibn Ajurrum, was a master of Arabic philology and Maliki jurisprudence in Marinid Fez. Legend holds that he composed his famous treatise while facing the Kaaba in Mecca, casting it into the sea and watching it wash ashore undamaged.

His pocket-sized grammar, Al-Muqaddimah al-Ajurrumiyya, synthesized the grammatical schools of Kufa and Basra with such pedagogical brilliance that it was memorized by millions of students across West Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, and became one of the first Arabic books printed in Europe by the Medici Press in Rome in 1592.

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Final Resting Place

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Bab Guissa Cemetery
Fez, Morocco

                         GPS: 34.0667, -4.9833                    

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