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

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72901-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

Reihe: Global Arabic Literary Cultures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindermann, Colinda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Colinda Lindermann (Dr. phil., Freie Universität 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.