Early Persian lexicography : farhangs of the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries
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Early Persian lexicography : farhangs of the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries
(Languages of Asia series, v. 6)
Global Oriental, 2007
[New English ed.] / rev. and updated by John R. Perry
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Ranniaia Persidskaia leksikografiia
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Translated from the Russian
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-242)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the only study in a Western European language of an important part of the intellectual and cultural history of the Persianate world in its formative phase. Persian dictionaries (farhangs) of the Islamic era, compiled principally in India, represent a unique linguistic undertaking that has no counterpart in pre-modern Europe. Solomon Baevskii (University of St Petersburg, emeritus) based his work on books and manuscripts from South Asia, Iran, Central Asia and Russia, charting the evolution of these documents from lexical and cultural-historical perspectives. Published originally in Russian in 1989, the book is here presented in a new English edition, revised and updated by John Perry, Professor of Persian at the University of Chicago.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 History of Persian Lexicography Studies
- 2 Beginnings of Persian Lexicography: 9th-10th Centuries
- 3 Classics of Early persian Lexicography: Iran and Adjacent Countries
- 4 The Rise of Persian Lexicography in India
- 5 Early Bilingual (Arabic-Persian) Dictionaries
- 6 Vocabulary of the Early Dictionaries
- 7 Structure and Presentation of the Farhang
- 8 Persian Farhangs as Sources for Cultural History
- Appendix: Chronological List of Persian Farhangs
- Bibliography
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