Career
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Jurjānī was an Ahsa"ari descendant, and born in the town of Gorgan in Iran. al-Jurjānī is said not to have left his home town of Gorgan all his life, yet his reputation reached many Arabic scholars who came to see him. He excelled in the two sciences of ilm al balaghah (eloquence and rhetorical art) and ilm al bayan (a branch of Arabic rhetoric dealing with metaphorical language), which he explained in his two books Asrar al Balaghah (Secrets of Rheotric), and Dala"il al-Ijaz (Intimations of Inimitability). First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Jurjānī was influenced by his predecessors such as the grammarian Sibawayh, the critic Abi Helal al-"Askari al Balaghi, and the linguist and literary theorist Abu Ali al-Farisi, known for his book al-Idah (Elucidation).
Later al-Jurjānī was to write a thirty-volume work of commentary on al-Idah entitled al Maghna fi Sharh al-Idah.
Also, in the introduction of Muhammad Abdul Muttaleb"s book Issues of Modernism in the Works of Abd-al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, Muttaleb writes of al-Jurjānī and Noam Chomsky "there is a similarity between these two men".