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Kitābāt
(26,210 words)
(a.), inscriptions. 1. Islamic epigraphy in general. The study of Arabic inscriptions today constitutes a science full of promise, an auxiliary science to be sure, but a science indispensable to the scholarly exploitation of a whole category of authentic texts capable of throwing light on the civilisation in the context of which they were written. From a very early period, seeing that the first dated Arabic inscription available to us goes back to the year 31/652 and that we are aware of previous inscr…
al-S̲h̲ām, al-S̲h̲aʾm
(23,192 words)
, Syria, etymologically, “the left-hand region”, because in ancient Arab usage the speaker in western or central Arabia was considered to face the rising sun and to have Syria on his left and the Arabian peninsula, with Yaman (“the rig̲h̲thand region”), on his right (cf. al-Masʿūdī,
Murūd̲j̲ ., iii, 140-1 = § 992; al-Muḳaddasī, partial French tr. A. Miquel,
La meilleure
répartition pour la connaissance des provinces , Damascus 1963, 155-6, both with other, fanciful explanations). In early Islamic usage, the term
bilād al-S̲h̲ām covered what in early 20th-…
Masd̲j̲id
(77,513 words)
(a.), mosque, the noun of place from
sad̲j̲ada “to prostrate oneself, hence “place where one prostrates oneself [in worship]”. The modern Western European words (Eng.
mosque , Fr.
mosquée , Ger.
Moschee , Ital.
moschea ) come ultimately from the Arabic via Spanish
mezquita . I. In the central Islamic lands A. The origins of the mosque up to the Prophet’s death. The word
msgdʾ is found in Aramaic as early as the Jewish Elephantine Papyri (5th century B.C.), and appears likewise in Nabataean inscriptions with the meaning “place of worship…