Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Hamadhani, better known simply as Ibn Khalawayh (; 890s – 980/81), was a 10th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and Quranic exegesis. He was born in Hamadan. He was active at the court of Sayf al-Dawla, the Hamdanid ruler of Syria, at Aleppo.
Ibn Khalawayh was a famous scholar during his lifetime, and assembled a circle of disciples in regular literary reunions. He was active in the period of hectic philological activity towards a canonical text of the Qur'an. His grammatical opinions were eclectic, in between the major opposition between the grammatical schools of Basra and Kufa.
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W. C. Brice, An Historical atlas of Islam, 1981, David Larsen, introduction to Ibn Khalawayh's Names of the Lion (Wave Books, 2017), vii-xiv.
External links Excerpt from Ibn Khalawayh's Names of the Lion, translated by David Larsen, on Poets.org