The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition - From the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century

A comprehensive and methodologically sophisticated history of Arabic lexicography, this book examines the aims, range, and approaches of the most important writings and writers of lexica specialized in specific topics and multi thematic thesauri, and the lexica arranged according to roots.

About the author

Ramzi Baalbaki, Ph.D. (1978), University of London, is the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut. He is also the Chair of the Academic Council of the Doha Arabic Historical Dictionary project. He has published extensively both in English and Arabic on the history of the Arabic grammatical and lexicographical traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Ramzi Baalbaki
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2014
• EAN: 9789004273979
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27397-9
• No. of pages: 500
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 885 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics