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Arabic, Dictionaries, Grammars & Linguistic Studies ...

Stephen Lambden UC Merced.

IN PROGRESS Under revision and completion, 2018.

Sa`d al-Dīn al-Harawi al-Taftazānī al-Shāfi`ī (d. c. 793/1390).

Lithograph edition dated 1280/1863 of The Kitab al-muṭawwal fi sharh takhliṣ al-miftāḥ  al-`ulūm ("The Comprehensive in  clarificatory exposition of the keys of the sciences"). A vast work on Arabic rhetoric and stylistics.

Abdel Halim, M.A.S.

  • ‘The Qur'an', in G.R. Hawting (ed), Sacred Writings in Oriental and African Religions, SOAS (External Services Division (Occasional Paper XII), London 1986, pp. 17-22. 3.
  • ‘Islam and Arabic’ in. Keith Brown et al (eds.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition) Elsevier, 2005.
  • ‘Arabic, of the Qur’an: Grammar and Style’ in C. Versteegh (ed.) Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill 2006
  • The Qur'an: A New Translation (with introduction), Oxford University Press 2004
  •  English Translations of the Qur’an: the Making of an Image, Monograph, SOAS, 2005 In preparation:
  •  A Dictionary of Qur’anic Usage, with E. Badawi, 2006 (forthcoming).

Ambros, Arne A.

  •  "Eine Lexikostatistik des Verbs im Koran." WZKM 77 (1987), pp. 9-36.
  • "Syntaktische und stilistische Funktionen des Energikus im Koran." WZKM 79 (1989), pp. 35-56.
  •   "Gestaltung und Funktionen der Biosphäre im Koran." ZDMG 140 (1990), pp. 290-325.
  • "Ein Bruderzwist in Sarf al-'Arablya — Beobachtungen zu den endungslosen Jussiv- und Imperativformen der Verba med. gem." In Martin Forstner (ed.): Festgabe für Hans-Rudolf Singer zum 65. Geburtstag am 6. April 1990. Frankfurt/Main 1991, pp. 37-54.
  • "Haplologie und Assimilation im V. und VI. Verbstamm im Koran." ZAL 25 (1993), pp. 1-16.
  • "Stick together! Groups, troops and cliques in the Koran." Arabistika i Isljamoznanije 2 (2003) (= Festschrift Penka Samsareva), pp. 105-112 .
  • A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic. compiled by Arne A. Ambros with the collaboration of Stephen Prochazka. Weisbadem: Reichert Verlag, 2004 (384pp.).*

 Ba`albakki, Munir. 

  • al-Mawrid : qamus Inkilizi-`Arabi - Munir al-Ba`labakki = al-Mawrid : a modern English- Arabic dictionary by Munir Ba`albaki. al-Tab`ah 18., tab`ah jadidah tashtamilu `alá mulhaq khass bi-al- amthal al-Inkiliziyah muqaranatan bi-amthal al-`Arab waaqwalihim al-ma`thurah. Bayrut : Dar al-`Ilm lil- Malayin, 1984.

Baalbaki, Ramzi.

  • Grammarians and Grammatical Theory in the Medieval Arabic Tradition. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate / Variorum, 2004) (354 pp. ).

  • Tamás Iványi (Review ) in  Journal of Islamic Studies  16 (2005), 366-371

Badger, George Percy (1815-1888).

  • An English-Arabic lexicon, in which the equivalents for English words and idiomatic sentences are rendered into literary and colloquial Arabic. Beirut : Reprinted by Librairie du Liban, 1967.

Biberstein-Kazimirski, Albert de, (1808-1887).

  • Dictionnaire arabe-français, contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l'idiome vulgaire que dans l'idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d'Alger et de Maroc, par A. de Biberstein Kazimirski ... Caire [Impr. v. r. égyptienne] 1875.

  • Dictionnaire français-persan  par A. de Biberstein Kazimirski. Beyrouth : Librairie du Liban, c. 1975.

Blachère, Régis (1900-1973).

  • Éléments de l'arabe classique. 4. éd. re et corr. Paris, G. P. Maisonneuve c. 1952

  • Dictionnaire arabe-français-anglais (langue classique et moderne) Arabic/French/ English dictionary, par Régis Blachère, Moustafa Chouémi et Claude Denizeau. Paris, G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose. c. 1964 (?).

Belot, Jean Baptiste (1822-1904)

  • Dictionnaire française-arabe. Beyrouth, Impr. catholique., c. 1952 ?

Brunschvig, Robert:

  • "Simples remarques négatives sur le vocabulaire du Coran." Studia  lslamica 5 (1956), 19-32.

Bustani, Butrus.

  • Muhit al-Muhit : qamus mutawwal lil-lughah al-`Arabiyah. Beirut : Maktabat Lubnan, 1977

Denny, Frederick Mathewson:

  • "Some religio-communal terms and concepts in thé Qur'an." Numen. International Review for the History of Religions 24 (1977), 26-59.

Doniach, N.S.  (ed..)+ Safa Khulusi, N. Shamaa, W. K. Davin.

  • The concise Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage / Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982. 

Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1820-1883).

  • Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes. 2 vols. Leyde: E. J. Brill, 1881.
  • Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes Beyrouth, Librairie Liban, 1968

Erpenius, T.

  • Erpenii Arabische Grammatik, abgekürzt, vollständiger und leichter gemacht, von J. D. Michaelis. Nebst den Anfang einer Arabischen Chrestomathie, aus Schultens Anhang zur Erpenischen Grammatik. • Göttingen, V. Bossiegel (gedruckt bey J. A. Barmeier), 1771. Small 8vo. cxii, 148, (4), 136 p.

Fagnan, Edmond (1846-1931).

  • Additions aux dictionnaires arabes, par E. Fagnan. Beyrouth, Librairie du Liban. c. 1974 (?).

Firuzabadi, Muhammad ibn Ya`qub, (1329-1414[5].

  • Al-qamus al-muhit The comprehensive dictionary, with the glosses of Nasr al-Hurini, rev. by Mustafa Anani. 2d ed. Cairo, al-Matba`at al-Husainiyah al-Missriyah, 1344 /1925-26.
  • Al-qamus al-muhit. c. 1925[6].

Fischer, Wolfdietrich.

  • `Classical Arabic'. In: The Semitic Languages. ed. Robert Hetzron. pp. 187--219 (= Routledge Language Family Descriptions), New York ; London: Routledge, 1997.
  • Grammatik des Klassischen Arabisch von Wolfdietrich Fischer.Porta linguarum orientalium ; neue Serie, 11 2., durchgesehene Aufl. Wiesbaden : O. Harrassowitz, 1987.

Freytag, Georg Wilhelm (1788-1861).

  • Freytag, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1788-1861. Lexicon arabico-latinum ex opere suo maiore in usum tironum excerptum edidit G. W. Freytag. Halis, Saxonum, apud C. A. Schwetschke et filium, 1837.
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  • Georgii Wilhelmi Freytagii Lexicon arabicolatinum : praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum arabum operibus : adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum : accedit index vocum latinarum locupletissimus. Beirut : Librairie du Liban, c. 1975. 

Freytag, Gustav, W. (ADD).

  • Lexicon Arabico-Latinum praesertim ex Djauharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum.Halle, C. A. Schwetschke & filius (typis Arabicis Academiae Regiae ... in officina Gebaueria), 1830-37 (-38). 4to. 4 volumes. xvi, 544; ii, 538; ii, 524; ii, 652, (2) p.
  • Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. 4 vols. Halis Saxonum 1830-37.*

Fraenkel, Siegmund:,

  • Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen. Leiden 1886.

Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Maurice (1862-1957)

  •  Grammaire de l'arabe classique, par M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes et R. Blachère. 3. éd. rev. et remaniée. Paris, G. P. Maisonneuve, 1952.

Ghazoui, Mēriem:

  • Les prépositions dans le Coran: Approche syntaxico-sémantique. 2 vote. Paris 1994-95.

Golius, J. (1596-1667).

  • Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, contextum ex probatioribus Orientis lexicographis. Accedit index Latinus copiosissimus, qui lexici Latino-Arabici vicem explere possit. • Leiden, typis Bon. & Abr. Elseviriorum, prostant Amstelodami apud J. Janssonium, 1653. Folio. 6 lvs, 16 pp., 17-2922 (recte 2928) columns, (4), (36) pp.

Günther, Sebastian:

  • "Tag und Tageszeiten im Qur'än." Hallesche Beiträge zur Orientwissenschaft 25 (1998), pp. 46֊67.

Hava, J. G.

  • al-Fara'id al-durriyah. Arabic-English dictionary. Beirut, Catholic Press. 1951

  • Arabic-English dictionary for the use of students ... Beirut, Catholic press, 1921. 

  • Arabic-English dictionary for the use of students. Rev. Fr. J. G. Hava, S.J. A.M.D.G. Beirut, Catholic press, 1989.

Haywood, John A.

  • Arabic lexicography: its history, and its place in the general history of lexicography. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1960.

Ibn Faris al-Qazwini, Ahmad, (fl.10th cent. ).

  • Mu`jam maqayis al-lughah. 1969-72

Ibn Manzur, Muhammad ibn Mukarram, (1232-1311 or 12).

  • Lisan al-`Arab  li-Ibn Manzur ; ed.  `Abd Allah `Ali al-Kabir, Muhammad Ahmad Hasab Allah, Hashim Muhammad al- Shadhili]. Tab`ah jadidah muhaqqaqah wa-mashkulah shaklan kamilan wa-mudhayyalah bifaharis mufassalah. al-Qahirah, J.M.`A. : Dar al-Ma`arif,1981.
  • Lisan al-`Arab  li-Ibn Manzur. ed. ADD:  9 vols. Beirut: Dar Sadir, XXXX
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  • Lisan al-`Arab  li-Ibn Manzur. ed.: Amir Ahmad Haydar & `AbdulMunim Ibrahim. 10 vols. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`lmiyya,  200?.

Jeffery, Arthur,

  •  The Foreign Vocabulary in the Quran. Baroda 1938.*

 Kandil, Lamya:

  • "Die Surennamen in der offiziellen Kairiner Koranausgabe und ihre Varianten." Der Islam 69 (1992), pp. 44-60.

 Lane,  Edward William (1801-1876 CE).

  • An Arabic-English Lexicon. Book I, Parts 1-8. London 1863-93.
  • An Arabic-English lexicon, London: Edinburgh, Williams and Norgate, 1863-93.
  • Arabic-English lexicon. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1955-56] (PJ6640 .L27 1955)
  • An Arabic-English lexicon  by Edward William Lane. Beirut, Lebanon : Libraire du Liban, 1980.
  • Arabic-English lexicon. E.W. Lane. Cambridge, England : Islamic Texts Society, c., 1984.
  • Arabic-English lexicon /  Madd al-qamus = an Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane. New Delhi : Asian Educational Services, 1985.
  • Lane, Edward William, Arabic English Lexicon, 2 vols, in 1. London: 1863 93. *

 
 

 

 

  • Rep. Islamic Texts Society (UK) 1984; 2003 (reprint)  3064pp. HB 2 volumes. ISBN= 0946621039.

Description from the publisher: 
"The most scholarly dictionary of the Arabic language available. This work is the product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor. It is a work of such unique greatness that, since its first appearance almost 150 years ago, it has remained to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography. No scholar or group of scholars has produced anything to supplant it. As it originally appeared and was later reproduced, the Lexicon consisted of eight large, cumbersome volumes, which made it difficult to use. Now, for the first time, the Islamic Texts Society has, with no loss whatsoever of clarity or legibility, brought together the eight large volumes into two compact volumes; it is now possible to keep the Lexicon on the work desk and refer to it with ease."

 Leemhuis, F.,

  • The D and H Stems in Koranic Arabic: A comparative study of the function and meaning of the f a" ala and 'afala forms in Koranic usage. Leiden 1977.*

Reckendorf, R.,

  • Arabische Syntax, Heidelberg 1921+ 2  ed.1977.

Reuschel, Wolfgang:

  • Aspekt und Tempus in der Sprache des Korans. Frankfurt/Main

 Sezgin,  Fuat

  • Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, Volume 8 Lexikographie. Bis ca. 430 H.,m Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982,  (xiii, 389 pp. ). ISBN-10: 90 04 06867 8  [978 9004068 67 4 ]

al-Taftazānī = Sa`d al-Dīn al-Harawi al-Taftazānī al-Shafi'ī (d.793/1390)

  • The Kitab al-muṭawwal fi sharh takhliṣ al-miftāḥ  al-`ulūm ("The Comprehensive in  clarificatory exposition of the keys of the sciences"). A vast work on Arabic rhetoric and stylistics. Lithograph edition dated 1280/1863. *

Sibawayhi, Abu Bishr `Amr ibn Uthmān  (d. c.180/796)

  • al-Kitab. 2 vols. Bulaq, 1316/XXXX.

Al-Nassir, A. A.

  • Sibawayh the Phonologist, A Critical Study of the Phoenetic and Phonological Theory of Sibawayh as presented in his Treatise al-Kitab (= Library of Arabic Linguistics, Monograph No. 10). London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1993 (130pp. + Arabic section).

Carter, M. G.

  • Sibawayhi, (in the `Makers of Islamic Civilization'  series of  I. B. Tauris), Oxford: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 2004 (159pp.).*

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1825-1903).

  • Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, London 1884+ Rep. Beirut 1989. *

Thackston, Wheeler McIntosh 

  • An introduction to Koranic and classical Arabic : an elementary grammar of the language.  Bethesda, Md. : Iranbooks, c 1994. *

Wehr, Hans, ed.  J. Milton Cowan. 

  •  A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Otto Harrassowitz, Publisher, Weisbaden, 4th Edition, 1979, 1301 pages, *
  •  A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (Arabic-English)., ed. by J. Milton Cowan, 3rd ed.: Münster-Ithaca-New York 1976; 4th ed.: Wiesbaden 1979.

Versteegh, C. H. M.

  • Arabie Grammar and Qur'anic Exegesis in Early Islam. Studies in Semitic Languages and Lingusitics, XIX. Edited by J. H. Hospers and C. H. M. Versteegh. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993.
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   Kees Versteegh (ed.)

  • Encyclopedia of Arabic Language And Linguistics (Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics) Vol. 1 A-Ed Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. 684pp. ISBN-10: 9004144730 ISBN-13: 978-9004144736. *
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  • Encyclopedia of Arabic Language And Linguistics (Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics) Brill Academic Publishers, (eds.)  Kees Versteegh (Editor), Mushira Eid (Editor), Alaa Elgibali (Editor), Manfred Woidich (Editor), Andrzej Zaborski (Editor) Vol.2  Eg-Ian., 2006. 716pp. ISBN-10: 9004144749 ISBN-13: 978-900414474.
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  • Encyclopedia of Arabic Language And Linguistics (Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics) Brill Academic Publishers, Vol. 3  ADD HERE   2007.  ISBN-10: 9004144765 ISBN-13: 978-9004144767. *

Wörterbuch der Klassischen Arabischen Sprache. Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden 1970—.

Wörterbuch der Klassischen Arabischen Sprache Hrsg. durch die Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.

  • Band I. Aľa Begriindet von Jörg Kraemer und Helmut Gätje. In Verbindung mit Anton Spitaler bearbeit von Manfred Ullmann, Wiesbaden 1970.-
  • Band II. Lām bearbeitet von Manfred Ullmann, Wiesbaden 1972 ff.

Woodhead, D. R. + Beene, W.,

  • A Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic, Arabic-English..., Institute of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University, The Richard Slade Harrell Arabic Series No. 10, Washington D. C. 1967.

 Wright, William (1830-1889) + Caspari, Carl Paul (1814-1892)...

  • A grammar of the Arabic language, translated from the German of Caspari, 3d ed. Cambridge University Press, 1896-98.
  • A grammar of the Arabic language, tr. from the German, and ed., with numerous additions and corrections, by W. Wright. London, Williams & Norgate, 1862.
  • A grammar of the Arabic language, translated from the German of Caspari, and edited with numerous additions and corrections by W. Wright. 3d ed., revised by W. Robertson Smith and M. J. de Goeje. With a preface and addenda et corrigenda by Pierre Cachia. Beirut, Librarie du Liban, 1974.
  • A grammar of the Arabic language; translated from the German of Caspari and edited with numerous additions and corrections by W. Wright. 3rd ed. revised by W. Robertson Smith and M. J. de Goeje. C. U.P., 1962.
  • A grammar of the Arabic language / translated from the German of Caspari and edited with numerous additions and corrections by W. Wright. 3rd ed. revised by W. Robertson Smith and M. J. de Goeje. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.