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A note about the Greek script and the Greek language as found in Kitāb al-Fihrist by Ibn an-Nadīm
Author(s) -
Nikolaj Serikoff
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
orientalistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-0738
pISSN - 2618-7043
DOI - 10.31696/2618-7043-2019-2-1-119-133
Subject(s) - arabic , greek language , linguistics , composition (language) , philosophy , arabic literature , classics , literature , history , art
the article deals with the note on the history of the Greek language and the Greek script as found in the Kitab al-Fihrist by Ibn an-Nadim. The author analyses the composition of the passage as well as the ways and methods applied to transcribe the Greek technical linguistic terms with Arabic letters. The results obtained invite a strong suggestion that the note as a whole was not written by Ibn an-Nadim himself but was constructed on the basis of the material from the Greek manual Kitāb fī aḥkām al-iʿrāb ʿalā madhab al-yūnāniyyīn composed by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. 873 AD).

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