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" Abū ʿAlqama al-Naḥwī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Weipert, Reinhard
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English
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1059721
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ALei118
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Weipert, Reinhard
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Abū ʿAlqama al-Naḥwī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Weipert, Reinhard
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(596 words)
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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
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Islam.
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ALei118.pdf
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