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1 online resource (xvii, 192 pages), 210 unnumbered pages. |
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Gorgias Islamic Studies ; 2
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Gorgias dissertations ; 33
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Gorgias Dissertations in Arabic and Islamic Studies ; 2
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Gorgias Islamic studies.
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Gorgias dissertations.
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Gorgias dissertations. Arabic and Islamic studies ; 2.
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"Second printing 2013." |
| Summary |
The heretofore unpublished Kitab al-Zina, virtually unknown in western scholarship, is a glossary of important Islamic terms by the 9th/10th-century Ismaili polymath Abu Hatim al-Razi. Some lament that Razi's historical approach to etymology failed to catch on and that had it done so, the face of Arabic dictionary writing might have been altered for the better. His organization of material was uniquely Ismaili as he took pains to synthesize contradictory information into a harmonious whole. This study examines sections of Razi's work with a view towards his contributions to the field of grammar and linguistics. |
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Frontmatter (Page:I) -- Table of contents (Page:v) -- Foreword / Ismail Poonawala (Page: ix) -- Acknowledgments (Page: xv) -- Abbreviations (Page:xvii) -- 1. Introduction -- Rāzī's life (Page:1) Rāzī's works (Page:3) Kitāb al-zīna (Page:7) Published editions (Page:9) Studies of Zīna (Page:10) This book (Page:10) -- 2. Rāzī the Lexicographer -- Early Arabic Lexicography (Page:13) Comparison between Rāzī and Ibn al-Anbārī (Page:16) Rāzī's predecessors (Page:19) al-Farrāʼ (Page:19) Abū ʿUbayda (Page:21) Abū ʿUbayd (Page:23) Ibn Qutayba (Page:24) Thaʿlab (Page:28) Mubarrad (Page:28) Ghiyāth (Page:29) 3. Kitāb al-zīna: Content -- The Introduction (Page:31) The doctrine of the superiority of Arabic: a historical context (Page:34) Ishtiqāq (Page:35) Foreign vocabulary in the Qurʼān (Page:37) Rāzī on foreign vocabulary in the Qurʼān (Page:40) The excellence and importance of poetry (Page:41) The Prophet's miracle (Page:43) The revival of poetry (Page:45) Creation (Page:50) Organization of the book (Page:51) -- 4. The entry on kalima -- Rāzī on kalima (Page:57) -- 5 Rāzī the etymologist: On the origin of place names -- Prologue (Page:75) Ishtiqāq (Page:76) Ishtiqāq and proper nouns (Page:79) Identity of Rāzī's and Ibn al-Anbārī's source (Page:87) Adoption by later lexicographers (Page:88) -- 6. Rāzī the grammarian -- Concerning terminology (Page:91) The history of Arabic grammar (Page:92) The latter-day Kūfans (Page:94) Categories and terminology (Page:95) School spirit among the Kūfans (Page:98) Farrāʼ vs. the latter-day Kūfans (Page:101) Technical terminology (Page:105) Farrāʼ on the badal (Page:108) ʿIbāra (Page:108) Tarjama (Page:108) Tābiʿ (as well as yatbaʿ, etc.) (Page:109) Takrīr (Page:111) Radd (and its derivatives) (Page:113) Tafsīr (Page:114) Paraphrase (Page:116) Tafsīr among the later Kūfans (Page:116) Badal (Page:118) Tarjama/mutarjim (Page:118) Badal (Page:119) Tābiʿ/itbāʿ, etc (Page:119) Radd and takrīr and derivatives (Page:120) Badal in Kitāb al-zīna (Page:121) -- 7 Rāzī the Heresiographer -- Rāzī's source material (Page:125) Heresiography as propaganda (Page:130) Rāzī's organization of the material (Page:132) Rāzī on the term ahl al-sunna wa-l-jamāʿa (Page:136) Rāzī's five divisions (Page:137) 1. Shīʿa (Page:138) 2. Murjiʼa (Page:139) History of Irjāʼ (Page:139) Rāzī on the Murjiʼa (Page:141) 3. Rāfiḍa (Page:144) 4. Qadariyya (Page:146) 5. Māriqa (Page:147) Conclusions (Page:148) -- 8 Conclusion-- Further avenues (Page:151) Rāzī the Ismāʿīlī (Page:152) Rāzī's influence on later generations (Page:158) -- Bibliography (Page:161) -- Index (Page:169). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān, -934? Zīnah fī al-kalimāt al-Islāmīyah al-ʻArabīyah.
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Arabic language -- Semantics.
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Arabic language -- Semantics. |
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Islam -- Terminology.
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Islam -- Terminology. |
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Ismailites.
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Ismailites. |
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General. |
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Islam. |
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Electronic books.
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Terminology.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Poonawala, Ismail K., writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
1463214723 (eBook) |
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9781463214722 (electronic book) |
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9781593337810 (hardcover) |
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1593337817 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
10.31826/9781463214722 |
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