IBN AL-DAHIRI, a thirteenth-century bishop of Damietta who wrote
a grammar called Muqaddimat ibn al-Dahiri. G. Graf lists him
under the name al-Thiqah ibn al-Duhayri and as one who exchanged
dictionaries with the grammarian al-MU’TAMAN IBN AL-‘ASSAL. The
latter requested from al-Dahiri a copy of al- Kifayah by the
Coptic grammarian al-Wajih al-Qalyubi, who had lived in the
thirteenth century (Simaykah, 1939, p. 38). Ibn al-‘Assal
declared that grammar to be erroneous in parts and incomplete,
and told al-Dahiri of the work of IBN KATIB QAYSAR. Al-Dahiri
recognized that the grammars of both men depended on that of
Yuhanna al-Dahiri, bishop of Samannud. Al-Dahiri then wrote his
own grammar, trying to avoid the errors and omissions of the
others. He used the established divisions into nouns, verbs, and
particles, and gave numerous examples (Kircher, 1648, pp.
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