La 4e de couverture indique : "This volume includes the reflections of leading researchers on Arabic and Semitic languages, also understood as systems and representations. The work first deals with Biblical Hebrew, Early Aramaic, Afroasiatic and Semitic. Its core focuses on morp…
Abū l-ʿAbbās ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim b. ʿAbd Manāf al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī (d. c. 68/687–8), known usually as Ibn ʿAbbās, was a paternal cousin and a Companion of the Prophet. 1. The life of Ibn ʿAbbās. The making of a Companion—between history and myth T…
The attributes of God (Ar. ṣifa , pl. ṣifāt, or naʿt , pl. nuʿūt) constitute an important subject in Islamic theology that over the centuries has engendered a great deal of discussion among various theologians, philosophers, and schools of thought, including the Muʿtazila, the A…
Arrogance and haughtiness, for which there are a number of terms in Arabic, are vices that figure prominently in Islamic judgements of human nature and behaviour. In pre-Islamic times boasting was a familiar literary trope in the poetical jousts between Arab tribes. The arroganc…
Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥalīmī al-Qāḍī al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥalīm al-Bukhārī al-Jurjānī al-Shāfiʿī (b. 338/949–50, d. Jumādā I 403/1012–3, or Rabīʿ I), was a traditionist, legal scholar, and theologian. He was born in Bukhara or Jurjān to a free woman of Jurjān; his hal…
Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad b. Abī Ṭāhir Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Isfarāyīnī al-Shāfiʿī, also called Ibn Abī Ṭāhir or al-Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid (b. 344/955–6, d. Saturday 19 Shawwāl 406/31 March 1016), was a Shāfiʿī scholar born in Isfarāyīn, in northwestern Khurāsān. Two Abū Ḥāmids must be distingui…
Abū l-Qāsim Salmān b. Nāṣir b. ʿImrān al-Arghiyānī al-Nīsābūrī al-Anṣarī al-Ṣūfī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 512/1118), was a descendant of the faqīh Maymūn b. Mihrān (d. 117/735). He was born in Arghiyān, near Nīshāpūr. In Nīshāpūr and elsewhere in Khurāsān he attended lessons by his early …
Abū Zurʿa ʿUbaydallāh b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Yazīd b. Farrūkh ( mawlā of ʿAyyāsh b. Muṭarrif) al-Qurashī al-Rāzī (b. c.200/815–6 or perhaps 194/809–10, d. 30 Dhū l-Ḥijja 264/2 September 878), sometimes called Abū Zurʿa al-Kabīr, was an important ḥadīth scholar of Rayy, in northern …
Abū Ḥātim Muḥammad b. Idrīs b. al-Mundhir b. Dāwūd b. Mihrān al-Rāzī al-Ḥanẓalī (al-Jazzī al-Ghaṭafānī) (195-Shaʿbān 277/810 or 811–890, in Rayy) was an Iranian ḥadīth scholar; his epithet “al-Ḥanẓalī” is said to have come from one of his ancestors—a mawlā of the B…