Majd al-Din al-Firuzabadi (1329-1415) : a polymath on the eve of the early modern period /

Majd al-Din al-Firuzabadi (1329-1415) : a polymath on the eve of the early modern period /

In Majd al-Dīn al-Fīrūzābādī (1329-1415): A Polymath on the Eve of the Early Modern Period , Vivian Strotmann provides a detailed reconstruction of the famous lexicographer's and travelling scholar's life and works. The 'author of the Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ ' is widely known for his Arab...

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Main Author: Strotmann, Vivian.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 121.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303935.

Subjects:

Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, > 1329-1414 or 1415.
Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, > 1329-1414 or 1415. > Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ.
Muslim scholars > Biography.
Lexicographers > Islamic Empire > Biography.

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Call Number: BP80.F58 S76 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • Reports on a Scholar's Life-Approaching the Sources
  • A Life's Journey
  • A lughawī and More
  • A Man on the Eve of the Early Modern Period
  • Summary
  • A Manuscript Source: al-Nuʿmānī's Kitāb al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir
  • Photos Ibn Ayyūb al-Nuʿmānī's tarjama of al-Fīrūzābādī, fols. 217v-219v
  • Bibliography
  • Index.