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Asās al-Balāghah ("The Foundation of Eloquence") [1] is a thesaurus and dictionary of figurative speech by Al-Zamakhshari. [2] [3] Zamakhshari authored the work, in part, to reconcile what he viewed as the miraculous nature of the Qur'an with his theological views.
The first version of Al-Maktaba Al-Shamela was released in April 2005 without the ability for users to upload digitized books to the library. [1] It was formerly known as Al-Mawsu'at Al-Shamela (The Comprehensive Encyclopedia) and was created by a member of an online forum that was dedicated to members of the Ahl al-Hadith religious community. [2]
In the Arabic language, naskh (Arabic: نسخ) can be defined as abolition, abrogation, cancellation, invalidation, copying, or transcription, according to the Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. [19] As an Islamic term, there is a lack of agreement among scholars on what exactly al-Naskh is, (according to several sources).
Naskh [a] is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy.Naskh is one of the first scripts of Islamic calligraphy to develop, commonly used in writing administrative documents and for transcribing books, including the Qur’an, because of its easy legibility.
In Arabic expressions, words are few but meanings are many, that is to say, the Arabic language makes use of (ا) [alif], and (ل) [laam] and nunnation (تنوین) and the sequence of words, in such a way that to express the same meaning the other languages need a number of sentences to be linked up for the same purpose.
Sabaic is the best attested language in South Arabian inscriptions, named after the Kingdom of Saba, and is documented over a millennium. [4] In the linguistic history of this region, there are three main phases of the evolution of the language: Late Sabaic (10th–2nd centuries BC), Middle Sabaic (2nd century BC–mid-4th century AD), and Late Sabaic (mid-4th century AD–eve of Islam). [16]
The earliest known record in a European language is Latin magazenum meaning "storeroom" in 1228 at the seaport of Marseille. The other early records in European languages are in Italian and Catalan coastal cities in the 13th century, with the same meaning. [33] The word still has that meaning today in Arabic, French, Italian, Catalan, and Russian.
Sibawayh was the first to produce a comprehensive encyclopedic Arabic grammar, in which he sets down the principles rules of grammar, the grammatical categories with countless examples taken from Arabic sayings, verse and poetry, as transmitted by Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, his master and the famous author of the first Arabic dictionary ...