Lexicography, Arabic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Baalbaki, Ramzi
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Leiden
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Brill
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The tradition of premodern Arabic lexicography extended for about a millennium and embraced a wide variety of genres and numerous methods of arrangement. The Kitāb al-ʿayn of al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. 175/791), which represents both the first extant thematic monograph and the first lexicon to include all Arabic roots, dates from the second half of the second/eighth century. Though not strictly premodern in terms of chronology, al-Zabīdī's (d. 1205/1790) voluminous Tāj al-ʿarūs is regarded as the most comprehensive work that crowns this