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Furthermore, the Lisān al-Arab notes its direct sources, but not or seldom their sources, making it hard to trace the linguistic history of certain words. Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī corrected this in his Tāj al-ʿArūs , that itself goes back to the Lisān .
Lisān al-ʿArab [] (لسان العرب, "Tongue of Arabs") was completed by Ibn Manzur in 1290. Occupying 20 printed book volumes (in the most frequently cited edition), it is the best known dictionary of the Arabic language, [6] as well as one of the most comprehensive.
This book is actually the rework of Imam al-Dhahabi book by the name of Mizan al-Itidal.Ibn Hijr has refined it, made this work expansive and named it as Lisan al-Mizan. It is one of the most popular book in the field of Ilm al-Rijal (Science of Narrators or Biographical evaluation) and contains more than 6000 pag
The Al-Kitaab series is a sequence of textbooks for the Arabic language published by Georgetown University Press with the full title Al-Kitaab fii Taʿallum al-ʿArabiyya (Arabic: الكِتاب في تَعَلًُم العَرَبِيّة, "The book of Arabic learning"). It is written by Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi ...
Kitab al-Ibar began as a history of the Berbers and expanded to a universal history in seven books. [4] [5] Book 1; Al-Muqaddimah ('The Introduction'), a socio-economic-geographical universal history of empires, and the best known of his works. [6] Books 2-5; World History up to the author's own time. Books 6-7; Historiography of the Berbers ...
Kitab al-I'tibar (Arabic: كتاب الاعتبار, The Book of Learning by Example) is the autobiography of Usama ibn-Munqidh, an Arab Syrian diplomat, soldier of the 12th century, hunter, poet and nobleman.
Usd al-ghābah fi maʿrifat al-Saḥabah (Arabic: أسد الغابة في معرفة الصحابة, lit. 'Lions of the Wild: On Knowing the Companions'), commonly known as Usd al-Gabah, is a book by Ali ibn al-Athir.
Man lā Yaḥḍuruhu al-Faqīh (Arabic: مَنْ لَا يَحْضُرُه ٱلْفَقِيه, lit. 'He Who has no Jurisprudent' with Him) is a Hadith collection by the famous Twelver Shia Hadith scholar Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAli ibn Babawayh al-Qummi, commonly known as Ibn Babawayh or Sheikh al-Saduq (lit. The Truthful Scholar).