learning than al-Jāḥiẓ, al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān, and Ismā’īl ibn Isḥaq al-Qāḍī (Judge). Whatever book came into the hands of al-Jāḥīẓ, he read it from cover to cover, while al-Fatḥ carried a book in his slipper and if he left the presence of Caliph al-Mutawakkil to relieve himself or to pray, he read the book as he walked and returned to his seat. As for Ismā’īl ibn Isḥaq, whenever I went in to him there was in his hand a book which he was reading, or else he was turning over some books so as to choose one of them to read. Notes References Bibliography 826 births 898 deaths 9th-century Arabs 9th-century Arabic writers 9th-century jurists 9th-century linguists 9th-century philologists Scholars from the Abbasid Caliphate Arab grammarians Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate Grammarians of Arabic Grammarians of Basra Medieval grammarians of Arabic People from Basra Philologists of Arabic Quranic exegesis scholars