IBN DURAID (Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn ul-Hasan ibn Duraid ul-Azdi) (837-934), Arabian poet and philologist, was born at Basra of south Arabian stock, but fled in 871 to Oman at the time Basra was attacked by the negroes, known as the Zanj, under Muhallabi. In 883 he went to Persia, where he remained until 92o when he settled in Baghdad.
Maqsura was edited by A. Haitsma (1773), E. Scheidius (1786) and N. Boyesen (1828) . The Kitdb ul-Ishtiqdq ("Book of Etymology") , ed. F. W iistenf eld (Gottingen, 1854), was written in opposition to the anti-Arabian party to show the etymological connec tion of the Arabian tribal names. The Jamhara fi-l-Lugha, a large dic tionary in Persian, is not printed. See Brockelmann, Gesch. der arab. Lit. i. (Weimar, 1898) .
