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The Onomasticon Arabicum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Seeger Bonebakker  and
John Hayes
Seeger Bonebakker
Affiliation:
University of California at Los Angeles
John Hayes
Affiliation:
University of California at Berkeley
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Extract

For several years, there has been at the University of California at Los Angeles a chapter of the Onomasticon Arabicum, an international project whose goal is the collection of data from Arabic biographical dictionaries and the storing and retrieval of these data by computer. What follows is a brief outline of the project and its history.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1986 , pp. 13 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. 1986

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1 Since the writing of the draft of this article in February 1985, our Research Islamic is t (John Hayes) has left UCLA. Although his formal connection with the Onomasticon has come to an end, both he and the Principle Investigator (Seeger Bonebakker) will continue to work with the parent team in Paris in an unofficial capacity.

We would like to use this occasion to acknowledge the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities in funding the UCLA team of the Onomasticon. Without its support we could not have initiated the work, and would not have been able to continue it over a period of eight years.

2 For interesting observations on the scholarly personality of Caetani and some of the tragic aspects of his career, see G. Levi Delia Vida, Fcmtasmi ritrovatx (Rome 1966) 21-72; and F. Gabrieli, La Storiagrafia arabo-istamka in Italia (Naples 1975) 45-61. The Onomasticon is mentioned on p. 38 of Levi Delia Vida's book.

3 There are certain peculiarities and conventions of the system that cannot be discussed here, such as the conventions adopted to handle ambiguities and errors in the texts.