Facts:   - death place: cairo , egypt    - influences: dawud al-zahiri    - death date: november 1235ad    - region: iberian peninsula and north africa    - school tradition: zahiri      - name: '' ` ibn dihya al-kalby '' '    - color: #b 0c4de    - influenced: ibn al-salah    - era: medieval era    - birth place: valencia , spain   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ibn dihya al-kalby .
The answer to this question is:
umar bin al-hasan bin ali bin muhammad bin al-jamil bin farah bin khalaf bin qumis bin mazlal bin malal bin badr bin dihyah bin farwah , better known as ibn dihya al-kalbi -lrb- -rrb- was a moorish scholar of both the arabic language and islamic studies , and member of the ahl al-bayt .he preferred to be called abu al-khattab , though at various times he was also referred to as ibn al-jumayyil , majd al-din , abu al-fadl or simply ibn dihya .