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Ibrahim Mustafa: Egyptian linguist and member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. He was born in 1888 and received a traditional religious education in his childhood. Where he memorized the Noble Qur’an, then joined Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, and studied there until he joined Dar Al-Uloom Higher School (Dar Al-Uloom College now). Since his childhood, Mustafa was passionate about grammar and its issues, and he showed brilliance and excellence in him. Where he was called by his teachers "Little Sibawayh"; This is because he was the most memorized among his colleagues of the text of language, the art of intonation and the science of readings, as he was always searching in grammar and morphology books to get acquainted with rare issues in them. After graduating, Mustafa worked as a teacher in the schools of the Islamic Charitable Society until he became its overseer and inspector of education after that. Then he was chosen to teach Arabic at the Faculty of Arts at the Egyptian University (now Cairo University), and he rose through the ranks until he became a professor of grammar. When the Faculty of Arts at Alexandria University was established, he worked there as a professor of literature and head of the Arabic language department, until he reached the rank of vice dean. Then he became dean of the Faculty of Dar Al Uloom until referring him to the pension. Mustafa was interested in simplifying grammar and ridding its rules of the difficulties and ills of grammarians, so he revolutionized the language by writing the book “The Revival of Grammar”, in which he criticized some scientific issues that made Arabic grammar a science concerned with controlling and expressing the word only, which narrowed its wide limits and shortened its goals. with new views aimed at simplifying theories and grammar; Where some greeted it, others met it violent attack; To change his book a lot in the field of Arabic linguistic studies and open the way for more theses of simplification and linguistic facilitation. He died in 1962 AD after a life full of academic and literary giving, and was inherited by many colleagues and great writers such as “Taha Hussein” and the writer “Ahmed Hassan al-Zayat”.