Baalbaki, Ramzi, The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition. From the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century, Leiden, Brill, 2014, 535p.
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A comprehensive and methodologically sophisticated history of Arabic lexicography, this book fills a serious gap in modern scholarship. Besides meticulously examining the factors that led to the emergence of lexicographical writing as of the second/eighth century, the work comprises detailed discussions of the aims, range, and approaches of the most important writings and writers of lexica specialized in specific topics and multi thematic thesauri, and the lexica arranged according to roots. ...