Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26… (1911)
“ THA'ĀLIBĪ [Abu Manşūr 'Abd ul-Malik ibn Mahommed ibn Isma'īl uth-Tha'ālibī] (961-1038) , Arabian philologist, was born in Nīshāpūr, and is said to have been at one time a furrier. Although he wrote prose and verse of his own, he was most famous for his anthologies and collections of epigrams. Like many other Arabian writers, he does not always distinguish between his own and other people's work. ”
