Dictionary as Commentary - Arabic Lexicography in the Post-Formative Period

Colinda Lindermann (Dr. phil., Freie Universität Berlin, 2025) works as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests include Islamic intellectual history and history of knowledge, Arabic language scholarship and comparative philology, and pre-Islamic poetry.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroduction: From Legend to Discipline1 The Return to Philology2 The End of the Formative Period3 Aspects of adab4 The Boundaries of Language in the Post-formative Period1 The Dictionary as a Commentary1 The Commentary Tradition2 How to Invite Commentary3 A Focus on ḥadīth4 Conclusion2 Anthologies of Errors: Laḥn al-ʿāmma in the Post-formative Period1 Laḥn al-ʿāmma in the Post-formative Period2 A Genre of Its Own: Engagement with al-Ḥarīrī’s Durrat al-ghawwāṣ3 From the Classic to the Contemporary: ghalaṭ mashhūr4 Benevolent Approaches to laḥn5 Conclusion3 The Social Life of Loanwords: Five Hundred Years of taʿrīb1 Taʿrīb Historically2 From al-Jawālīqī to al-Muḥibbī: Loanwords in the Post-formative Period3 Loanwords as Pretext4 ConclusionConclusionAbstract — ملخصBibliographyIndex of Names and WorksIndex of Subjects and Terms