This is the first book-length study of Arabic lexicography in the post-formative period (ca. 1200-1800). It provides a window into the dynamics of the discipline and the intellectual debates that unfolded in the study of the Arabic language. With a focus on speech errors and loanwords, the author explains how scholars integrated new language phenomena into tradition. By reading the dictionary as a form of commentary that departs from its master text to expand and challenge its content, this book offers a new understanding of the vibrant field of Arabic lexicography and commentary culture at large.
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7 farbige Abbildungen
7 Illustrations, color
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-90-04-72901-8 (9789004729018)
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Colinda Lindermann (Dr. phil., Freie Universitaet Berlin, 2025) works as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests include Islamic intellectual history and history of knowledge, Arabic language scholarship and comparative philology, and pre-Islamic poetry.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction: From Legend to Discipline
?1?The Return to Philology
?2?The End of the Formative Period
?3?Aspects of adab
?4?The Boundaries of Language in the Post-formative Period
1 The Dictionary as a Commentary
?1?The Commentary Tradition
?2?How to Invite Commentary
?3?A Focus on ?adith
?4?Conclusion
2 Anthologies of Errors: La?n al-?amma in the Post-formative Period
?1?La?n al-?amma in the Post-formative Period
?2?A Genre of Its Own: Engagement with al-?ariri's Durrat al-ghawwa?
?3?From the Classic to the Contemporary: ghala? mashhur
?4?Benevolent Approaches to la?n
?5?Conclusion
3 The Social Life of Loanwords: Five Hundred Years of ta?rib
?1?Ta?rib Historically
?2?From al-Jawaliqi to al-Mu?ibbi: Loanwords in the Post-formative Period
?3?Loanwords as Pretext
?4?Conclusion
Conclusion
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Bibliography
Index of Names and Works
Index of Subjects and Terms
