Ahmed-Ben-Fares, El-Razy
, surnamed El-Razy, an Arabian lexicographer and lawyer, was the contemporary of
the celebrated Djewhary. Besides some works on the
vnbject of jurisprudence, he is the author of an “Arabic
Dictionary,” entitled “Moudjimi-Alloghat,” of which
there is a manuscript copy in the Leyden library, and
another in the Bodleian. Golius, who made use of it in
his Arabic dictionary, thinks that it was prior to that. of
Djewhary. Ahmed died in Hamdan, about the year 999
of the Christian æra. 2
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