Kitab Fiqh al-Lughah wa Asrar al-'Arabiyyah.

Al-Tha'alibi, abi Mansur.

Published by al-Matba’a al-'Umumiyyah, Cairo, 1900

About this Item

16 pp., contents, 263 pp., Arabic text within borders, modern hard back binding, first & last few pages foxed & soiled, paper browned, few annotations in margins, otherwise copy in general good condition. Al-Tha'alibi was a prolific writer, born in Nishapur. Although he wrote prose and verse of his own, he was most famous for his anthologies and collections of epigrams. Like many other Arabic writers of his time, he does not always distinguish between his own and other people's work. Of the twenty-nine works known to have been written by him, the most famous is his Kitab Yatimat ud-Dahr, on the poets of his own and earlier times, arranged according to the countries of the poets, and containing valuable extracts (published at Damascus, 4 vols., 1887). Another of his works, the Kitab Fiqh ul-Lugha, is lexicographical, a dictionary, the words being arranged in semantic subject classes. #35091. Seller Inventory # 012744

Bibliographic Details

Title: Kitab Fiqh al-Lughah wa Asrar al-'Arabiyyah.

Publisher: al-Matba?a al-'Umumiyyah, Cairo

Publication Date: 1900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good