Dictionary as Commentary - Arabic Lexicography in the Post-Formative Period /

Dictionary as Commentary - Arabic Lexicography in the Post-Formative Period /

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 ex...

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Main Author: Lindermann, Colinda (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English
German

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Global Arabic Literary Cultures ; 4.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Art History.
Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • 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 ḥadīth
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 2 Anthologies of Errors: Laḥn al-ʿāmma in the Post-formative Period
  • 1 Laḥn al-ʿāmma in the Post-formative Period
  • 2 A Genre of Its Own: Engagement with al-Ḥarīrī's Durrat al-ghawwāṣ
  • 3 From the Classic to the Contemporary: ghalaṭ mashhūr
  • 4 Benevolent Approaches to laḥn
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 3 The Social Life of Loanwords: Five Hundred Years of taʿrīb
  • 1 Taʿrīb Historically
  • 2 From al-Jawālīqī to al-Muḥibbī: Loanwords in the Post-formative Period
  • 3 Loanwords as Pretext
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Abstract - ملخص
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names and Works
  • Index of Subjects and Terms.