Taj Al-ʿArus min Jawahir Al-Qamus (تَاج العَرُوس مِن جَوَاهِر القَامُوس, short title Taj al-ʿArus; "The Bride's Crown from the Pearls of al-Qāmūs") is an Arabic language dictionary written by the Egyptian scholar Murtada al-Zabēdē ( Arabic: محمد مرتضى الحسيني الزبيدي; 1732–1790), one of the foremost philologists of the Arab post-classical era. The monumental dictionary contains around 120,000 definitions, and is an expansion of Fairuzabadi's earlier Qamus Al-Muhit and Ibn Manzur's Lisan al-Arab. [1] Begun in 1760, when al-Zabidi was 29 years old, the dictionary took him fourteen years to complete; he concluded it on the eighth of September 1774. [1]
The dictionary's introduction included a lengthy commentary on the dictionary of Fairuzabadi. [1] [2]
Zabidi's chose a feminine subject in the title of his dictionary in commemoration of his deceased wife; he made use of antecedents, particularly Fairuzabadi's Qamus and Ibn Manzur's Lisan al-Arab, and undertook multiple travels and meetings to validate his work. [3] He expanded previous word definitions, added new entries, and corrected errors found in previous lexicographic works. [4]
Zabidi's extensive bibliography numbered 115 consulted sources, including ones on Hadith and history. He also gave credit to previously[ when?] unnamed authors. [5]
References
- ^ a b c Reichmuth, Stefan (2009-05-04). The World of Murtada Al-Zabidi: 1732-91 Life, Networks and Writings. Gibb Memorial Trust. pp. 54–59. ISBN 9781909724723.
- ^ Taj al-Arus min Jawahir al-Qamus تاج العروس من جواهر القاموس (in Arabic). Dar Sader. 2011. ISBN 9789953132563.
- ^ al-Musawi, Muhsin J. (2015-04-15). The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction. University of Notre Dame Pess. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-268-15801-9.
- ^ Gouws, Rufus; Heid, Ulrich; Schweickard, Wolfgang; Wiegand, Herbert Ernst (2008-07-14). Wörterbücher / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires. 3. Teilband. Walter de Gruyter. p. 2443. ISBN 978-3-11-020339-4.
- ^ El-Shamsy, Ahmed (2020-02-11). Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. Princeton University Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-0-691-20124-5.
Taj Al-ʿArus min Jawahir Al-Qamus (تَاج العَرُوس مِن جَوَاهِر القَامُوس, short title Taj al-ʿArus; "The Bride's Crown from the Pearls of al-Qāmūs") is an Arabic language dictionary written by the Egyptian scholar Murtada al-Zabēdē ( Arabic: محمد مرتضى الحسيني الزبيدي; 1732–1790), one of the foremost philologists of the Arab post-classical era. The monumental dictionary contains around 120,000 definitions, and is an expansion of Fairuzabadi's earlier Qamus Al-Muhit and Ibn Manzur's Lisan al-Arab. [1] Begun in 1760, when al-Zabidi was 29 years old, the dictionary took him fourteen years to complete; he concluded it on the eighth of September 1774. [1]
The dictionary's introduction included a lengthy commentary on the dictionary of Fairuzabadi. [1] [2]
Zabidi's chose a feminine subject in the title of his dictionary in commemoration of his deceased wife; he made use of antecedents, particularly Fairuzabadi's Qamus and Ibn Manzur's Lisan al-Arab, and undertook multiple travels and meetings to validate his work. [3] He expanded previous word definitions, added new entries, and corrected errors found in previous lexicographic works. [4]
Zabidi's extensive bibliography numbered 115 consulted sources, including ones on Hadith and history. He also gave credit to previously[ when?] unnamed authors. [5]
References
- ^ a b c Reichmuth, Stefan (2009-05-04). The World of Murtada Al-Zabidi: 1732-91 Life, Networks and Writings. Gibb Memorial Trust. pp. 54–59. ISBN 9781909724723.
- ^ Taj al-Arus min Jawahir al-Qamus تاج العروس من جواهر القاموس (in Arabic). Dar Sader. 2011. ISBN 9789953132563.
- ^ al-Musawi, Muhsin J. (2015-04-15). The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction. University of Notre Dame Pess. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-268-15801-9.
- ^ Gouws, Rufus; Heid, Ulrich; Schweickard, Wolfgang; Wiegand, Herbert Ernst (2008-07-14). Wörterbücher / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires. 3. Teilband. Walter de Gruyter. p. 2443. ISBN 978-3-11-020339-4.
- ^ El-Shamsy, Ahmed (2020-02-11). Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. Princeton University Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-0-691-20124-5.