Talk:Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali

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According to The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1999), Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali was a poet whose poems were "poor in language and style and artistically and historically insignificant". The allegation that he invented the rules of Arabic grammar was "invented most probably by some philologist of the Basra school". He was known to be a partisan of Ali, but that seems to be his only claim to notability. Teleomatic (talk) 03:28, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

In the Arab world he is usually remembered as the first to have added vowel dots (see Harakat) to the Arabic script on behest of Al-Hajjaj.