Bynames found in Ibn
al-Bannā ʼ
by Basil Dragonstrike
The following lists contains the laqabs and nisbas I have found in
Ibn al-Bannāʼ. There are nearly as many definitions of the
difference between a laqab and a nisba as there are writers on the
subject. I have therefore chosen to refer to both laqabs and nisbas
as "bynames." Note that this is not the SCA usage of the term
"byname".
In spoken Arabic, the prefix "al-" is not always pronounced as
written. Specifically, the "a" is elided (that is, not pronounced)
following a word ending in a vowel; also, the "l" is sometimes
assimilated (that is, it is changed to the sound of the following
letter) before "sun letters." Makdisi has changed the spelling of
"al-" to fit the pronunciation throughout his translation. Upon
consideration, I have decided to use the spelling "al-" throughout,
as I believe this is more useful to re-enactors, particularly as the
spelling with "al-" is more common in scholarly sources than with
"al-" altered.
I have divided the lists into "bynames per se"
(that is, those found in names in the position where bynames are
usually found), "bynames found only in kunyas"
(that is, where a person is referred to as the father of someone
known by his or her byname), "bynames found only
in nasabs" (that is, where a progenitor is referred to by his
byname), and "bynames found only in kunyas and
nasabs" (that is, name elements found both in kunyas and in
nasabs, but not as a byname per se).
bynames per se
al-Marwazīya {female}
al-A‘azz
al-‘Abbāsī
al-‘Abd aṣ-Ṣamadī {that's how it is in the book}
al-Abīwardī
al-‘Aiyār
al-‘Ajamī
al-‘Ajjān
al-Akhbārī
al-A‘lam
al-‘Alawī
al-Āmidī
al-Anbāri
al-Andalusī
al-Anmātī
al-Anṣārī
al-Ash‘arī
al-‘Asqalānī
al-‘Aẓīmī
al-Baghawī
al-Baghdādī
al-Baiḑāwī
al-Baiyi‘
al-Bakrī
al-Bandanījī
al-Bannā’
al-Baqqāl
al-Baradānī
al-Bāri‘
al-Barzabīnī
al-Basāsīrī
al-Bauwāb
al-Bazzār
al-Bazzāz
al-Birzālī
al-Bukhārī (?)
al-Bundār
al-Busrī
al-Dabbās
al-Dailamī
al-Dāmaghānī
al-Dāraquṭnī
al-Ḑarīr
al-Darzījānī
al-Dhuhlī
al-Dimashqī
al-Dīnawarī
al-Dujā
al-Durrī
al-Faqīh
al-Fārisī
al-Farrā’
al-Fūrakī
al-Ghaḑā’irī
al-Ghubārī
al-Ghūrī
al-Ḥaffār
al-Ḥājjī
al-Ḥalāwī
al-Hamadhānī
al-Ḥammāmī
al-Ḥanbalī
al-Harāsī
al-Harawī
al-Ḥārithī
al-Hāshimī
al-Hāshimīyīn
al-Ḥulwānī
al-Ḥumaidī
al-‘Irāqī
al-Iṣfahānī
al-‘Ishsh
al-Jammā‘īlī
al-Jammālī
al-Jarrār
al-Jassār
al-Kalwadhānī
al-Karajī
al-Khaiyāt
al-Khallāl
al-Khaṭīb
al-Khazzāz
al-Khiraqī
al-Kirmānī
al-Kiyā
al-Kutubī
al-Madhārī
al-Maḥmī
al-Maqdisī
al-Mardūsī (?)
al-Marwazī
al-Māwardī
al-Mazrafī
al-Miṣrī
al-Muqriʼ
al-Muqtadī
al-Muʼtaman
al-Mutanabbī
al-Nadā
al-Nahrawānī
al-Najjād
al-Nāsikh
al-Nīsābūrī
al-Nu‘aimī
al-Nu‘mān
al-Qā’im
al-Qādir
al-Qalānisi
al-Qarmīsīnī
al-Qaṣṣār
al-Qazwīnī
al-Qirmīsīnī
al-Rūdhrāwarī
al-Ṣābūni
al-Ṣaffār
al-Ṣaḥrāwī
al-Ṣairafī
al-Sājī
al-Salīmīnī
al-Samarqandī
al-Shāfi‘ī
al-Sha‘īr
al-Sha‘īrī
al-Shaibānī
al-Shāmī
al-Shīrajī
al-Shīrāzī
al-Sibṭ
al-Silafī
al-Ṣuffār
al-Sukkarī
al-Sulaimānī
al-Sulaimī
al-Sulaimīnī
al-Ṭabarī
al-Ṭabaristānī
al-Tamīmī
al-Ṭuyūrī
al-‘Ukbarī
al-Wā‘iẓ
al-Wakīl
al-Wālī
al-Yahūdī
al-Za‘īm
al-Zainabī
al-Zanjānī
al-Zinjānī
al-Zuhrī
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bynames found only in kunyas
al-‘Alā’
al-Aswār
al-Barakāt
al-Faḑl
al-Faraj
al-Fatḥ
al-Fawāris
al-Futūḥ
al-Ghanā’im
al-‘Izz
al-Khaṭṭāb
al-Laith
al-Ma‘ālī
al-Sahl
al-Su‘ūd
al-Wafā’
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bynames found only in nasabs
al-Ādamī
al-ʻArīf
al-Athīr
al-Badan
al-Bādī
al-Baladī
al-Dhakhīra
al-Gharīq
al-Habbārīya
al-ʻImād
al-Jauzī
al-Jazarī
al-Juhrumī
al-Kawān
al-Liḥyāni
al-Maḥāsin
al-Mahdī
al-Mallūqī (?)
al-Maṭbakhī
al-Muḥsin
al-Muhtadī
al-Munādī
al-Muslima
al-Nadīm
al-Najjār
al-Naqqāsh
al-Narsī
al-Nāṣir
al-Naṣr
al-Qauwās
al-Ṣabbāgh
al-Sam‘ānī
al-Ṣāmiṭ
al-Sarrāj
al-Shaṭṭī
al-Shuhūrī
al-Sībī
al-Sulamī
al-Sunnī
al-Tabbān
al-Thallāj
al-Tustarīya
al-Zubair
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bynames found only in kunyas and nasabs:
al-Khaṭṭāb
al-Muẓaffar
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