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Title Kitab al-Ma': an Arabic medical dictionary of the mid-fifth Islamic century
Full text http://doc.rero.ch/record/332980/files/asia-2017-0022.pdf
Date 2021
Author(s) Bachour, Natalia
Abstract In 1996, Hada Ḥasan Ḥammada published an edition of a medical dictionary based on two manuscripts he had found in a private collection in Oran, Algeria. The dictionary was allegedly written by 'Ab' Muhammad 'Abdallah b. Muhammad al-'Azd', known under the name Ibn al-Dhahab' (d. 456/1064). The transcription shows hamzat al-qaṭ' but not hamzat al-waṣl, therefore: 'ab' but ibn. The author of the dictionary acquired his knowledge in several regions of the Islamic world and allegedly studied with such famous scholars as al-B'r'n' (d. 440/1048) and Ibn S'na (d. 428/1037). Complaining that his contemporaries frequently used non-Arabic terms, he decided to compile a dictionary, arranging the terms in alphabetical order by their roots, and explaining their medical as well as their linguistic aspects. He entitled his dictionary the Book of Water (Kitab al-ma'), after its first entry, on water (al-ma'). This paper investigates the text with regard to its author, content, principles of organisation, authorities, and intertextuality, with the aim of verifying the authorship of Ibn al-Dhahab' and of better understanding the literary environment and the reading culture of the fifth century.
Language ger
Repository Switzerland - Library Network of Western Switzerland (RERO)
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