Sibawayh(i)'s full name is Amr ibn Uthman ibn Qanbar but most people call him by his epithet Sibawayhi. His name has been variously spelt. Owens (1988) and Al-Nassir (1993)always spells it Sibawayh but Carter (2004) spells it Sibawayhi (hence the parenthesised i)

Short biography

Sibawayh was born in a small town called Bayda (though some say it was Ahwaz) in Southern Persia.

References

Al-Nassir, A.A. (1993). Sibawayh the Phonologist.London and New York:Keegan Paul International.

Owens, J. (1988). The Foundations of Grammar: An introduction to Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Carter, M.G. (2004). Sibawayhi. London and New York: I.B. Tauris.