# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yahya-ibn-ziyad-farra
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:41:09.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yahya-ibn-ziyad-farra"
name: "Yaḥyā Ibn-Ziyād Farrāʾ"
slug: "yahya-ibn-ziyad-farra"
description: "Al-Farrāʼ (الفراء), he was Abū Zakarīyāʼ Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād ibn ʽAbd Allāh ibn Manṣūr al-Daylamī al-Farrāʼ, was a Daylamite scholar and the principal pupil of al-Kisā’ī (الكساءى). He is the most brilliant of the Kūfan scholars. Muḥammad ibn Al-Jahm quotes Ibn al-Quṭrub that it was al-Farrā’s melodic eloquence and knowledge of the pure spoken Arabic of the Bedouins and their expressions that won him special favour at the court of Hārūn al-Rashīd. He died on the way to Mecca, aged about sixty, or sixty-seven, in 822."
tagline: "Linguist, philologist and astronomer (761-822)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "761"
deathDate: "822"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.7
  momentum:             5.070422535211266
  historical:           7.893486666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "الفراء نحوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B2%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1"
    title: "أبو زكريا الفراء"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "আল-ফাররা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farra'"
    title: "Al-Farra'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B2%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1"
    title: "ابوزکریا فراء"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farra%CA%BC"
    title: "Al-Farraʼ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Zakaria_al-Farra"
    title: "Abu Zakaria al-Farra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%83_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Абу Закария аль-Фарра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%91%D0%B8_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%8A"
    title: "Абузакариёи Фарроъ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16118116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump