TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ali,Jamal
AU  - Poonawala,Ismail
TI  - Language and Heresy in Ismaili Thought: The Kitab al-Zina of Abu Hatim al-Razi 
T2  - Gorgias Islamic Studies
SN  - 9781593337810
U1  - 290 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; 1. INTRODUCTION --; 2. RĀZĪ THE LEXICOGRAPHER --; 3. KITĀB AL-ZĪNA: CONTENT --; 4. THE ENTRY ON KALIMA --; 5. RĀZĪ THE ETYMOLOGIST: ON THE ORIGIN OF PLACE NAMES --; 6. RĀZĪ THE GRAMMARIAN --; 7. RĀZĪ THE HERESIOGRAPHER --; 8. CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX OF QURʾĀNIC VERSES; restricted access
N2  - The heretofore unpublished Kitab al-Zina, virtually unknown in western scholarship, is a glossary of important Islamic terms by the 9th/10th-century Ismaili polymath Abu Hatim al-Razi.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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463214722
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463214722
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463214722/original
ER  -