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Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī

Scholar from al-Andulus, 1052–1127

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Source revisionJun 10, 2026
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Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī, also spelled Ibn Assīd or Abenasid, was an Andalusian grammarian and philosopher. He is the earliest Islamic philosopher from the West whose works have survived.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.