TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ali,Jamal
AU  - Poonawala,Ismail K.
TI  - Language and Heresy in Ismaili Thought: the Kitab al-Zina of Abu Hatim al-Razi 
T2  - Gorgias Islamic Studies
SN  - 1463214723
AV  - PJ6585.A2833 
U1  - 492/.72 22
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - Gorgias Press
KW  - Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān,
KW  - Arabic language
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Islam
KW  - Terminology
KW  - Ismailites
KW  - Arabe (Langue)
KW  - Sémantique
KW  - Terminologie
KW  - Ismaéliens
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Second printing 2013."; Frontmatter (Page:I) -- Table of contents (Page:v) -- Foreword / Ismail Poonawala (Page: ix) -- Acknowledgments (Page: xv) -- Abbreviations (Page:xvii) -- 1. Introduction -- Rāzī's life (Page:1) Rāzī's works (Page:3) Kitāb al-zīna (Page:7) Published editions (Page:9) Studies of Zīna (Page:10) This book (Page:10) -- 2. Rāzī the Lexicographer -- Early Arabic Lexicography (Page:13) Comparison between Rāzī and Ibn al-Anbārī (Page:16) Rāzī's predecessors (Page:19) al-Farrāʼ (Page:19) Abū ʻUbayda (Page:21) Abū ʻUbayd (Page:23) Ibn Qutayba (Page:24) Thaʻlab (Page:28) Mubarrad (Page:28) Ghiyāth (Page:29) 3. Kitāb al-zīna: Content -- The Introduction (Page:31) The doctrine of the superiority of Arabic: a historical context (Page:34) Ishtiqāq (Page:35) Foreign vocabulary in the Qurʼān (Page:37) Rāzī on foreign vocabulary in the Qurʼān (Page:40) The excellence and importance of poetry (Page:41) The Prophet's miracle (Page:43) The revival of poetry (Page:45) Creation (Page:50) Organization of the book (Page:51) -- 4. The entry on kalima -- Rāzī on kalima (Page:57) -- 5 Rāzī the etymologist: On the origin of place names -- Prologue (Page:75) Ishtiqāq (Page:76) Ishtiqāq and proper nouns (Page:79) Identity of Rāzī's and Ibn al-Anbārī's source (Page:87) Adoption by later lexicographers (Page:88) -- 6. Rāzī the grammarian -- Concerning terminology (Page:91) The history of Arabic grammar (Page:92) The latter-day Kūfans (Page:94) Categories and terminology (Page:95) School spirit among the Kūfans (Page:98) Farrāʼ vs. the latter-day Kūfans (Page:101) Technical terminology (Page:105) Farrāʼ on the badal (Page:108) ʻIbāra (Page:108) Tarjama (Page:108) Tābiʻ (as well as yatbaʻ, etc.) (Page:109) Takrīr (Page:111) Radd (and its derivatives) (Page:113) Tafsīr (Page:114) Paraphrase (Page:116) Tafsīr among the later Kūfans (Page:116) Badal (Page:118) Tarjama/mutarjim (Page:118) Badal (Page:119) Tābiʻ/itbāʻ, etc (Page:119) Radd and takrīr and derivatives (Page:120) Badal in Kitāb al-zīna (Page:121) -- 7 Rāzī the Heresiographer -- Rāzī's source material (Page:125) Heresiography as propaganda (Page:130) Rāzī's organization of the material (Page:132) Rāzī on the term ahl al-sunna wa-l-jamāʻa (Page:136) Rāzī's five divisions (Page:137) 1. Shīʻa (Page:138) 2. Murjiʼa (Page:139) History of Irjāʼ (Page:139) Rāzī on the Murjiʼa (Page:141) 3. Rāfiḍa (Page:144) 4. Qadariyya (Page:146) 5. Māriqa (Page:147) Conclusions (Page:148) -- 8 Conclusion-- Further avenues (Page:151) Rāzī the Ismāʻīlī (Page:152) Rāzī's influence on later generations (Page:158) -- Bibliography (Page:161) -- Index (Page:169)
N2  - The heretofore unpublished Kitab al-Zina, virtually unknown in western scholarship, is a glossary of important Islamic terms by the 9th/10th-century Ismaili polymath Abu Hatim al-Razi. Some lament that Razi's historical approach to etymology failed to catch on and that had it done so, the face of Arabic dictionary writing might have been altered for the better. His organization of material was uniquely Ismaili as he took pains to synthesize contradictory information into a harmonious whole. This study examines sections of Razi's work with a view towards his contributions to the field of grammar and linguistics
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