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Dictionary as Commentary – Arabic Lexicography in the Post-Formative Period
Author(s): Colinda Lindermann (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: July 24, 2025
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 196 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004729011
- ISBN-13: 9789004729018
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of Arabic lexicography in the post-formative period (ca. 1200-1800). It provides a window into the dynamics of the discipline and the intellectual debates that unfolded in the study of the Arabic language. With a focus on speech errors and loanwords, the author explains how scholars integrated new language phenomena into tradition. By reading the dictionary as a form of commentary that departs from its master text to expand and challenge its content, this book offers a new understanding of the vibrant field of Arabic lexicography and commentary culture at large.
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About the Author
Colinda Lindermann (Dr. phil., Freie Universität Berlin, 2025) works as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests include Islamic intellectual history and history of knowledge, Arabic language scholarship and comparative philology, and pre-Islamic poetry.
