# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-khalil-ibn-ahmad-al-farahidi
# Generated: 2026-08-16T03:27:14.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-khalil-ibn-ahmad-al-farahidi"
name: "Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi"
slug: "al-khalil-ibn-ahmad-al-farahidi"
description: "Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī, known as al-Farāhīdī, or al-Khalīl, was an Arab philologist, lexicographer and leading grammarian of Basra in Iraq. He made the first dictionary of the Arabic language – and the oldest extant dictionary – Kitab al-'Ayn – introduced the now standard harakat system, and was instrumental in the early development of ʿArūḍ, musicology and poetic metre. His linguistic theories influenced the development of Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Urdu prosody. The \"Shining Star\" of the Basran school of Arabic grammar, a polymath and scholar, was a man of genuinely original thought."
tagline: "Iraqi lexicographer, philologist and poet (718 – 786 CE)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "718"
deathDate: "786"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.86488266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump