al-Sāmī fī al-asāmī
By: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Maydānī
Contributors: Jazāʼirī, Niʻmat Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1640 or 1641-1701; Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr; al-Tibrīzī, Luṭf ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad; Thaʻālibī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad, 961 or 962-1037 or 1038
Series: Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library; Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Teheran?]
Language: mul
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Poetry; Arabic language; Dictionaries; Persian; Grammar; Arabic Islamic poetry; History and criticism
Other titles: Kitāb al-sāmī fī al-asāmī lil-Fāḍil al-Maydānī, kitāb Sirr al-adab fī majārī lughat al-ʻArab lil-Thaʻālibī, kitāb Furūq al-lughāt li-Walad al-Sayyid Niʻmat Allāh al-Jazāʼirī, Sharḥ li-qaṣīdat Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr yamdaḥu bi-hā al-Nabī
Description: [A classified dictionary of the Arabic language, explained in Persian. Followed by a treatise on the difference between words used in Arabic as synonyms, entitled Furūq al-lughāt, by Nūr al-Dīn ibn Niʿmat Allāh al-Jazāʾirī, and by the Kasidah in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, commonly called Bānat Suʿād, by Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr, with a commentary by Luṭf ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Tabrīzī. Accompanied on the margin by a number of other pieces and extracts, namely : (1) Sirr al-adab, a treatise on Arabic lexicology, by al-Thaʿālibī ; (2) an anonymous supplement to the preceding; (3) an anonymous tract on words feminine by usage ; (4) a Kasidah by Ibn al-Ḥājib on the same subject ; (5) some extracts on the genders ; (6) a metrical list by Ibn Mālik of some weak verbs, which may be inflected with و or ى for third radical indifferently ; (7) an extract on the use of the particles of interrogation ; (8) an extract on some verb forms ; (9) some extracts from al-Maydānīʾs collection of proverbs ; (10) a Kasidah by Ḥassān ibn Thābit ; (11) two Kasidahs by the Caliph ʿAlī ; (12) a Kasidah by al-Mutanabbī ; (13) the Kasidah entitled al-Khamrīyah, by Ibn al-Fāriḍ ; (14) a Kasidah ascribed to Imruʾ al-Qays ; (15) the Kasidah entitled al-Maqṣūrah, by Ibn Durayd, with anonymous notes ; (16) a Kasidah by al-Farazdaq ; (17) the Kasidah in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad by Ismāʿīl al-Ḥimyarī, accompanied by an extract relating to it from Muḥammad Bāqir Majlisīʾs work entitled Biḥār al-anwār.].
Notes: Reproduction of the original from The British Library.

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Text in Arabic and Persian.
Table of contents: title: Furūq al-lughāt  -- Jazāʼirī, Niʻmat Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh; title: Qaṣīdat al-Burdah  -- Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr; title: Sharḥ qaṣīdat Bānat Suʻād  -- Luṭf ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Tibrīzī; title: Sirr al-adab fī majārī lughat al-ʻArab  -- ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī; title: Qaṣīdah fī al-muʼannathāt al-samāʼiyah  -- ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib; title: Dīwān  -- Ḥassān ibn Thābit; title: Qaṣīdah  -- ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; title: Qaṣīdah  -- Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn Mutanabbī; title: Khamrīyah  -- ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Fāriḍ; title: Qaṣīdah  -- Imruʼ al-Qays; title: Maqṣūrah  -- Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Durayd; title: Qaṣīdah  -- Farazdaq; title: Qaṣīdah al-mudhahhabah  -- Ismāʻil ibn Muḥammad Sayyid al-Ḥimyarī; title: Biḥār al-anwār -- Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī Majlis.