Title: al-Sāmī fī al-asāmī
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.].
Subjects: Poetry, Arabic language, Dictionaries, Persian, Grammar, Arabic Islamic poetry, History and criticism
People: Muḥammad Prophet (-632), ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph (approximately 600-661), Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr