Author | Al-Zamakhshari |
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Original title | أساس البلاغة |
Language | Arabic |
Genre | Dictionary |
Publication date | 12th century |
Asās al-Balāghah ("The Foundation of Eloquence") [1] is a thesaurus and dictionary of figurative speech by Al-Zamakhshari. [2] [3] Zamakhshari authored the work, in part, to reconcile what he viewed as the miraculous nature of the Qur'an with his theological views. [4]
Notable as the earliest fully alphabetical Arabic lexicography, [5] and in addition for the metaphorical content Zamakhshari includes with his literal definitions. [6] Zamakhshari's system lists words in alphabetical order according to the first component of their tri-radical consonant letters to the last. He excludes complicated derived and rare forms, such quadrilaterals and quintilaterals. [7] Zamakhshari's goal was to catalog both the literal and figurative meanings of Arabic words, and he used examples from the Qur'an and hadith for both. [7] He viewed words almost as living organisms that were given life by the way they were used in rhetoric. [8]
Author | Al-Zamakhshari |
---|---|
Original title | أساس البلاغة |
Language | Arabic |
Genre | Dictionary |
Publication date | 12th century |
Asās al-Balāghah ("The Foundation of Eloquence") [1] is a thesaurus and dictionary of figurative speech by Al-Zamakhshari. [2] [3] Zamakhshari authored the work, in part, to reconcile what he viewed as the miraculous nature of the Qur'an with his theological views. [4]
Notable as the earliest fully alphabetical Arabic lexicography, [5] and in addition for the metaphorical content Zamakhshari includes with his literal definitions. [6] Zamakhshari's system lists words in alphabetical order according to the first component of their tri-radical consonant letters to the last. He excludes complicated derived and rare forms, such quadrilaterals and quintilaterals. [7] Zamakhshari's goal was to catalog both the literal and figurative meanings of Arabic words, and he used examples from the Qur'an and hadith for both. [7] He viewed words almost as living organisms that were given life by the way they were used in rhetoric. [8]