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Language and Heresy in Ismaili Thought : the Kitab al-Zina of Abu Hatim al-Razi /
The heretofore unpublished Kitab al-Zina, virtually unknown in western scholarship, is a glossary of important Islamic terms by the 9th/10th-century Ismaili polymath Abu Hatim al-Razi. Some lament that Razi's historical approach to etymology failed to catch on and that had it done so, the face...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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New Jersey :
Gorgias Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Gorgias Islamic studies.
Gorgias dissertations. Gorgias dissertations. Arabic and Islamic studies ; 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter (Page:I)
- Table of contents (Page:v)
- Foreword / Ismail Poonawala (Page: ix)
- Acknowledgments (Page: xv)
- Abbreviations (Page:xvii)
- 1. Introduction
- Rāzī's life (Page:1) Rāzī's works (Page:3) Kitāb al-zīna (Page:7) Published editions (Page:9) Studies of Zīna (Page:10) This book (Page:10)
- 2. Rāzī the Lexicographer
- Early Arabic Lexicography (Page:13) Comparison between Rāzī and Ibn al-Anbārī (Page:16) Rāzī's predecessors (Page:19) al-Farrāʼ (Page:19) Abū ʻUbayda (Page:21) Abū ʻUbayd (Page:23) Ibn Qutayba (Page:24) Thaʻlab (Page:28) Mubarrad (Page:28) Ghiyāth (Page:29) 3. Kitāb al-zīna: Content
- The Introduction (Page:31) The doctrine of the superiority of Arabic: a historical context (Page:34) Ishtiqāq (Page:35) Foreign vocabulary in the Qurʼān (Page:37) Rāzī on foreign vocabulary in the Qurʼān (Page:40) The excellence and importance of poetry (Page:41) The Prophet's miracle (Page:43) The revival of poetry (Page:45) Creation (Page:50) Organization of the book (Page:51)
- 4. The entry on kalima
- Rāzī on kalima (Page:57)
- 5 Rāzī the etymologist: On the origin of place names
- Prologue (Page:75) Ishtiqāq (Page:76) Ishtiqāq and proper nouns (Page:79) Identity of Rāzī's and Ibn al-Anbārī's source (Page:87) Adoption by later lexicographers (Page:88)
- 6. Rāzī the grammarian
- Concerning terminology (Page:91) The history of Arabic grammar (Page:92) The latter-day Kūfans (Page:94) Categories and terminology (Page:95) School spirit among the Kūfans (Page:98) Farrāʼ vs. the latter-day Kūfans (Page:101) Technical terminology (Page:105) Farrāʼ on the badal (Page:108) ʻIbāra (Page:108) Tarjama (Page:108) Tābiʻ (as well as yatbaʻ, etc.) (Page:109) Takrīr (Page:111) Radd (and its derivatives) (Page:113) Tafsīr (Page:114) Paraphrase (Page:116) Tafsīr among the later Kūfans (Page:116) Badal (Page:118) Tarjama/mutarjim (Page:118) Badal (Page:119) Tābiʻ/itbāʻ, etc (Page:119) Radd and takrīr and derivatives (Page:120) Badal in Kitāb al-zīna (Page:121)
- 7 Rāzī the Heresiographer
- Rāzī's source material (Page:125) Heresiography as propaganda (Page:130) Rāzī's organization of the material (Page:132) Rāzī on the term ahl al-sunna wa-l-jamāʻa (Page:136) Rāzī's five divisions (Page:137) 1. Shīʻa (Page:138) 2. Murjiʼa (Page:139) History of Irjāʼ (Page:139) Rāzī on the Murjiʼa (Page:141) 3. Rāfiḍa (Page:144) 4. Qadariyya (Page:146) 5. Māriqa (Page:147) Conclusions (Page:148)
- 8 Conclusion-- Further avenues (Page:151) Rāzī the Ismāʻīlī (Page:152) Rāzī's influence on later generations (Page:158)
- Bibliography (Page:161)
- Index (Page:169).