Abu Nasr al-Jawhari explained

Abu Nasr al-Jawhari
Birth Name:Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (or al-Jauhari)
Birth Place:Otrar, Transoxiana (now Kazakhstan)
Death Date:1002 or 1008
Death Place:Nishapur, Abbasid Caliphate (now Iran)
Nationality:Persian
Occupation:Lexicographer, writer
Known For:Wrote al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-Lughah

Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (Arabic: ابو نصرإسماعيل بن حماد الجوهري) also spelled al-Jauhari (died 1002 or 1008) was a medieval Turkic[1] [2] lexicographer and the author of a notable Arabic dictionary al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-Lughah (Arabic: الصحاح في اللغة).

Life

He was born in the city of Farab[3] (Otrar) in Transoxiana (in today's southern Kazakhstan). He began his studies of the Arabic language in Farab,[3] then studied in Baghdad, continuing among the Arabs of the Hejaz, then moving to northern Khurāsān, first to Damghan before settling finally at Nishapur. It was here he met his death in a failed attempt at flight from the roof of a mosque, possibly due to delusions of being a bird.[4]

Works

In 1729 Ibrahim Muteferrika's Arabic-Turkish dictionary, based on Jawhari's, became the first book printed by printing press of Ottoman era.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: الذهبي. شمس الدين. سير أعلام النبلاء - ج 25 : الفهارس 2. IslamKotob. ar.
  2. Web site: L.. Kopf. al-D̲j̲awharī. 24 April 2012 . en.
  3. Jauharī . 15 . 281 . Griffithes W. . Thatcher.
  4. Youssef, H. A., Youssef, F. A., & Dening, T. R. (1996). Evidence for the existence of schizophrenia in medieval Islamic society. History of Psychiatry, 7(25), 059. doi:10.1177/0957154x9600702503
  5. Book: Jawharī (al-), Ismail ibn Hammad. Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari. Al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah. Bayrūt. Dār al-ʻIlm lil-Malāyīn. 1979. 2. ar .
  6. Sprenger, p82
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=ixCyd2lByggC&pg=PA113 History of Humanity
  8. Book Arabic Lexicography: Its History..., by John A. Haywood, year 1965, chapter six: "The Ṣaḥāḥ of al-Jauharī".
  9. See library catalogs at Classify.OCLC.org. Also C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Literatur (Weimar, 1898).
  10. The al-Sihah of al-Jawhari was rendered as an Arabic–Turkish dictionary by Vankulu (died 1592) and was published in Istanbul in 1729. This publication is of significance in the history of publishing under the Ottomans, as discussed in the article about its publisher Ibrahim Muteferrika. Further information at ref .