Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Subject: Middle East And Islamic Studies
The Third Edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, which sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World and reflects the great diversity of current scholarship. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. Subscriptions: see brill.com
Edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Devin J. Stewart.
With Roger Allen, Edith Ambros, Thomas Bauer, Johann Büssow, Carl Davila, Ruth Davis, Ahmed El Shamsy, Maribel Fierro, Najam Haider, Konrad Hirschler, Nico Kaptein, Alexander Knysh, Corinne Lefèvre, Scott Levi, Roman Loimeier, Daniela Meneghini, Negin Nabavi, M'hamed Oualdi, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Ignacio Sánchez, and Ayman Shihadeh.
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The Third Edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, which sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World and reflects the great diversity of current scholarship. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. Subscriptions: see brill.com
Lexicography, Ottoman-Turkish, in Europe
(2,540 words)
Ottoman-Turkish lexicography in Europe first appears in the tenth/sixteenth century. Earlier works on the Ottomans had appeared in the ninth/fifteenth century in Europe, and these works, in addition to providing information on the cultural, political and social aspects of the Ottoman State, touched upon basic features of Ottoman Turkish grammar and presented limited widely used vocabularies in the Latin alphabet. The travelogue of Arnold von Harff (d. 1505), a German pilgrim to the Holy Land, prese…
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
Lexicography, Persian
(3,336 words)
Persian lexicography has been influenced by languages which include Pahlavi and Arabic and trends which include widespread use of Persian in India and a modern puristic language movement. Persian dictionaries and glossaries have developed since the fourth/tenth century and have seen various arrangements for their entries. Recent Persian lexigraphical endeavours have included a data-based dictionary which attempts to capture the reality of language as it is used in daily communication and a Perso-Arabic script dictionary for Tajik Persian. The usual premodern Persian term …
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
Lexicography, Urdu
(2,005 words)
Urdu lexicography, encompassing multiple genres in verse and prose that provide explanations of words and phrases, is similar to most other major New Indo-Aryan languages in the late arrival—in this case, dating the to the mid-nineteenth century—of the comprehensive monolingual dictionary. Derived primarily from the speech forms prevalent in the Delhi region of northern India, Urdu is identical in grammar to Modern Standard Hindi and is differentiated primarily by its use of the Perso-Arabic scri…
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19