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Ibn 'Abbās's Gharīb al-Qur'ān

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. Rippin
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In a previous article discussing the text entitled al-Lughāt fī'l-Qur'ān attributed to Ibn 'Abbās, mention was made of two manuscripts of Gharīb al-Qur'ān also attributed to Ibn 'Abbās. A recent visit to Istanbul allowed an examination of these works, leading to the discovery that, in fact, these manuscripts contain two additional copies of al-Lughāt fī'l-Qur'ān and that an independent text Gharīb al-Qur'ān attributed to Ibn. 'Abbās does not exist. A proliferation of titles has taken place regarding this text and, most significantly of course, around the figure of Ibn 'Abbās and his role in Qur'ānic lexicography.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 1983 , pp. 332 - 333
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1983

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References

1 Rippin, A., ‘Ibn ‘Abbās's al-Lughāt fī'l-Qur'ān’, BSOAS, XLIV, 1, 1981, 15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 GAS, I, 27.

3 cf. Rippin, , 'Ibn ‘Abbās’, p. 20 and especially n. 35.Google Scholar

4 See ibid., 18.

5 Wansbrough, J., Quranic studies: sources and methods of scriptural interpretation, Oxford, 1977, 218 and Rippin, 'Ibn ‘Abbās’, 20.Google Scholar

6 See Wansbrough, , Quranic studies, p. 219Google Scholar at n. 6; al-Suyūṭī, al-Itqān fi ‘lūm al-Qur'ān, Cairo, 1967, II, 6–46 (difficult words), II, 91–102 (dialect words).Google Scholar

7 Thanks are due to the Director, Sϋleymaniye Kϋtϋphanesi, Istanbul, and Dr. Ahmed Subhi Furat, Istanbul University, for their assistance. Travel to Istanbul was made possible by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research COuncil of Canada.