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, Ḳuṭb al-Dīn Abu ’l-Fatḥ Mūsā b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh, Syrian historian and Ḥanbalī s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ , b. Damascus in 640/1242, d. Baʿlabakk in 726/1326, best known as the author of the D̲h̲ayl Mirʾāt al-zamān , a continuation of the Mirʾāt al-zamān of Sibṭ Ibn al-D̲j̲awzī (d. 654/ 1256 [ q.v.]). Al-Yūnīnī belonged to a scholarly family originally from Yūnīn, a small town in the region of Baʿlabakk; his family claimed descent from D̲j̲aʿfar al-Ṣādik [ q.v.] and in some sources, bore the nisba al-Ḥusaynī. Following the death of hi…

1. In Arabic morphology In general, the formation of these adjectives is a simple matter, the suffixation taking place directly without modification of the vocalisation or consonantal structure of the nouns to which it is applied: s̲h̲ams “sun”, s̲h̲amsī “solar”; ḳamar “moon”, ḳamarī “lunar”; Miṣr “Egypt”, Miṣrī “Egyptian”, etc. It should be noted, however, that in certain cases alterations occur for which the grammarians have been at pains to codify rules. Only the most frequent modifications will be cited here: omission of the tāʾ marbūṭa : Baṣra ; transformation of the final -ā ( or ) …