Dictionary as Commentary - Arabic Lexicography in the Post-Formative Period (Global Arabic Literary Cultures)

Lindermann, Colinda

Brill（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004729018

Full Description

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.

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