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A note about the Greek script and the Greek language as found in Kitāb al-Fihrist by Ibn an-Nadīm

Published:2019-09-07 Issue:1 Volume:2 Page:119-133
ISSN:2618-7043
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Author:

Serikoff N. I.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Abstract: 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).

Publisher

Institute of Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences

Subject

General Medicine

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