Abū ʿAlqama al-Naḥwī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Abū ʿAlqama al-Naḥwī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Weipert, Reinhard

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1059721
Doc. NO	:	ALei118
Main Entry	:	Weipert, Reinhard
Title & Author	:	Abū ʿAlqama al-Naḥwī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Weipert, Reinhard
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(596 words)
Abstract	:	Abū ʿAlqama al-Naḥwī was an Arab protagonist of jokes based upon wordplay, probably not a historical person. Since his name is unknown and no reliable information about his life is available, Johann Fück (67) rightly considered him a “legendary figure” and Franz Rosenthal (10, n.5) described him as a “legendary ‘grammarian’ of early times.” However, Fuat Sezgin ( GAS 9:153), who was uncritically followed by Kathrin Müller (323), did not take the sound judgement of Fück and Rosenthal into account, and, in an unproven hypothesis, identified him as
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei118.pdf