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Asas al-Balagha, the Glossary

Asās al-Balāghah ("The Foundation of Eloquence") is a thesaurus and dictionary of figurative speech by Al-Zamakhshari.^[1]

24 relations: Al-Zamakhshari, Arabic, Brill Publishers, Dictionary, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, Hadith, John Esposito, Kenneth Setton, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library, Leiden, Lexicography, London, Madison, Wisconsin, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Patna, Paul Starkey, Quran, Routledge, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Thesaurus, University of Wisconsin Press, Wen-chin Ouyang.
12th-century Arabic-language books
Arabic dictionaries
Thesauri

Al-Zamakhshari

Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari (1074 –1143) was a medieval Muslim scholar of Iranian descent.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Hadith

Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.

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John Esposito

John Louis Esposito (born May 19, 1940) is an American academic, professor of Middle Eastern and religious studies, and scholar of Islamic studies, who serves as Professor of Religion, International Affairs, and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is also the founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding at Georgetown.

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Kenneth Setton

Kenneth Meyer Setton (June 17, 1914 – February 18, 1995) was an American historian and an expert on the history of medieval Europe, particularly the Crusades.

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Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library

Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library is one of the national libraries of India, located in Patna, Bihar.

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Lexicography

Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Patna

Patna, historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. Covering and over 2.5 million people, its urban agglomeration is the 15th largest in India.

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Paul Starkey

Paul Starkey is a British scholar and translator of Arabic literature.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Islam

The Oxford Dictionary of Islam is a dictionary of Islam, published by the Oxford University Press, with John Esposito as editor-in-chief.

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Thesaurus

A thesaurus (thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

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University of Wisconsin Press

The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.

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Wen-chin Ouyang

Wen-chin Ouyang, (歐陽文津) is a professor of Arabic literature and comparative literature at SOAS, University of London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asas_al-Balagha