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there throughout his life. Of Arab ethnicity, his nickname means 'furrier' or 'tailor who works with fox fur', and medieval biographers speculated that this was his job or his father's, but there is no convincing evidence for either proposition. The only hint as to al-Tha?alibi's education is a claim that he was taught by Abu Bakr al-Khwarizmi (who was certainly a source for al-Tha?alibi's poetry anthologies). Likewise, despite his great prowess,

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