Abu al-Abbas Ahmad bin Abd al-Rahman bin Muhammad bin Sa’id bin Harith bin Asim al-Lakhmi al-Qurtubi better known as Ibn Maḍāʾ (1116–1196) was a Muslim polymath from Córdoba in Islamic Spain. Ibn Mada was notable for having challenged the traditional formation of Arabic grammar and of the common understanding of linguistic governance among Arab grammarians performing an overhaul first suggested by Al-Jahiz two-hundred years prior.
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