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Al-Tuwal

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Muḥammad al-Kisāʾī

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Abu Musa al-Jazuli

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Quṭrub the Grammarian

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Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani

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Abu Zayd al-Dabusi

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Abu Dulaf al-Ijli

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Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi

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Lucien Bouvat

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Constantine of Nicaea

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