ELEMENTARY ARABIC a series planned by FREDERIC DU PRE THORNTON.
Lecturer in Persian in the University of Cambridge, and some time
Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge at the University Press 1909 .
PREFACE THIS Reading 7 Book is the second of three which were
planned by the late Mr Thornton for his Arabic Series. The first,
published in 1907, contains certain extracts from the Koran, a
portion pp. 13 64 of Wrights Arabic Reading-Book, a grammatical
analysis of the Koranic text, and a glossary the third, which I
hope to bring out next year, will comprise the remainder of Wrights
work, a glossary, and brief explanatory notes. The present volume
is marked by some novel features. 1. The selected passages are
taken from texts and many scripts which, so far as I know, have not
hitherto been edited by any European scholar. 2. They have been
chosen and arranged in chronological order with the purpose of
illustrating the literary, social, and religious history of the
Arabs. 3. Notes have been added at the foot of each page, partly to
explain grammatical and linguistic difficulties, and partly to
supply such literary and historical information as is
indispensable. I will now state the various sources from which I
have derived the nineteen extracts included in this book. I. The
manners, customs, and beliefs of the Pre-Islamic Arabs. This
passage is taken from the Mustatraf, an extensive anthology
compiled by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khatib al- Abshihi, who died
about 1450 A. D., and comprises the greater part of the fifty-ninth
chapter Bulaq edition, 1268 A. H., vol. ii. pp. 9599. VI PREFACE
II. The war of Dahis and al Ghabra. This account of one of the most
famous Pre-islamic wars occurs in the iqdal farid by Ibn abdi
rabbihi of Cordova, who died in 940 A. D. Cairo edition, 1293A. H.,
vol. iii. p. 67, 1. 21 to p. 68, 1. 27. III. Arab knights. Also
from the iqd vol. i, p. 44, 1. 11 to p. 45, last line. IV.
Concerning poetry and poets. This passage consists of extracts from
the forty-ninth section of the Muzhir ft uldm al lughaft, a
well-known treatise on philology, by Jalal al din al Suytiti, who
died in 1505 A. D. Bulaq edition, 1282 A. H., vol. ii. pp. 234245.
V. Specimens of Arabian eloquence, wit, and wisdom. These are
selected from the Kitdb al baydn wal tabai yun, a very interesting
work on rhetoric by amr ibn Bahr al Jahiz, who died in 869 A. D.
Cairo edition, 1313 A. H., vol. i. p. 175, 1. 5 to p. 192, 1. 14.
VI. Early Moslem asceticism. Extracts from the same work, vol. ii.
p. 86, 1. 9 to p. 91, 1. 22. VII. The meaning and derivation of
Sufi. Two extracts from the Risdltih, al Qushai riyafi an important
treatise on early Muharnmadan mysticism, by Abu 1 Qasim al Qushairi
of Nishapur, who died in 1072 A. D. Cairo edition, 1318 A. H., p.
9, 11. 310, and p. 149, 11. 2435. VIII. Stories of Moslem saints.
These are taken from the Leiden manuscript of the Hilytih al auliyd
Cod. 311 Warn. by Abu Nuaim al Isfahan, who died in 1038 A. D. See
the Leiden Catalogue, vol. v. p. 209. The anecdotes of Ibrahim ibn
Adham occur in vol. i. f. 182 b and foil., while the story of Dhu 1
Nun al Misri comes in vol. ii. f. 205 a and foil. PREFACE Vll IX.
The Shuubiyah and their opponents. Two extracts from the iqd al
arid of Tbn abdi rabbihi, vol. ii. p. 85, 1. 19 to p. 86, 1. 21 and
p. 90, 1. 11 to p. 91, 1. 17. X. The Mutaziliyah. Two extracts from
the KaMttl, a popular anthology com piled byBaha al din al Amili,
who died in 1621 A. D. Bulaq edition, 1288 A. H., p. 159, 11. 1421,
and p. 219, 1. 18 to p. 220, 1. 7. XI Some Arab orators. This
passage occurs in the Zahr al dddb by Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al Husri of
Qairawan in North Africa, who died in 1022 or 1061 A. D. His
anthology lias been printed on the margins of the iqd al farid
Cairo edition, 1293A. H.. The passage in question will be found in
vol. iii. p. 200, 1. 19 to p. 204, 1. 8...
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