MUBARRAD, AL-

born March 25, 826, Basra, Iraq died October 898, Baghdad original name Abu Al-'abbas Muhammad Ibn Yazid Arab grammarian and literary scholar whose Al-Kamil (The Perfect One) is a storehouse of linguistic knowledge. After studying grammar in Basra, al-Mubarrad was called to the court of the 'Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil at Samarra' in 860. When the caliph was killed in 861, al-Mubarrad went to Baghdad, remaining there most of his life as a teacher. In Al-Kamil, al-Mubarrad gives excerpts from Arab poetry and proverbs and from Arab history and the Hadith (traditions of the prophet Muhammad) and subjects them to grammatical and literary scrutiny.