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Dictionaries [998] لوامع النجوم المستضيئة من شمس العلوم ...
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Abstract:
Dictionaries. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1436 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office , (volume 1), no. 998 here with further notations and hyperlinks] . 998. 1436. Size 10 3/4 in. by 6 1/4 in.; foll. 641. Twenty-five lines in a page. A Dictionary of the Arabic Language, which is an abridgment of a larger work, called شمس العلوم , and is accordingly entitled لوامع النجوم المستضيئة من شمس العلوم. The author is not known. The larger work in question was composed by Nashwân b. Sa’îd Ḥ imyarî 1 (d. A.H. 573), whose son, according to Ḥ. Kh. iv. 74, also made an abridgment of it, with the title, ضياء الحلوم . Begins: الحمد لله الذى فضّل الانسان على سائر الحيوان الخ The author restricts himself to lexicology, اللغات, leaving aside all the literary and descriptive matter of the original work. He says regarding the latter: .. لكن كان محتويا على ذكر ملوك العرب و مشتملا على بعض قواعد علم الادب و على كل شئ من منافع الاشجار و ...
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Dictionaries; India Office; IO Islamic 1436; Richard Johnson 1753-1807
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5828220
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