Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl (or b. Aḥmad) Ibn Sīda al-Andalusī al-Mursī al-Ḍarīr (c.398–458/c.1008–66), was a prolific Andalusian lexicographer and philologist born in Murcia. He was blind, probably from birth, as was his father. Among his teachers were his father and Ṣāʿid b. a…