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Ibn Qutaybah (828–889?)
Ibn Qutaybah, Abdallah Ibn Muslim. A noted Arabic philologist and historian; born at Bagdad, 828; died there, 889?. He composed, among many other things, a ‘Handbook of History,’ brought out in a German translation in 1850; a work on ‘The Art of Poetry’; and ‘Contributions to the Knowledge of Poetry among the Old Arabs.’