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Fīrūzābādī's “Wine-List”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. S. Fulton
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The Arabic manuscript Or. 9200 in the British Museum collection, copied in Cairo in a fairly clear Naskhi hand in the year A.H. 1181 (A.D. 1767), contains three short works. The first of these, covering sixty–one folios, bears the title al–Jalīs al–anīs fī tahrim al–kkandarīs. Its author is the famous lexicographer Muhammad ibn Ya′qūb al–Fīrūzābādī (d. 817/1415). It is a vocabulary of all the Arabic words known to him which signify wine or any other intoxicant, and he is careful to emphasize that he composed it in loyal support of the Islamic ordinance of prohibition no less than as a contribution to Arabic philology.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 3-4 , October 1948 , pp. 579 - 585
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1948

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page 579 note 1 Brockelmann (GAL., ii, 183 and Suppl.) lists three MS. in Cairo and one in Istanbul. The reference to Brill–H.2, 287 seems to be an error. The archetype of the British Museum MS. appears to be the fine calligraphic copy preserved in the Bibliotheque Egyptienne, Cairo (Fihris al–kutub al–'arabiyya, 1926, p. 11, No. 511) executed in the author′s lifetime, in.777/lZ15, for the library of al–Malik al–Ashraf Sha'bān. The Director of the Bibliothèque kindly supplied me with photostats of certain folios.

page 580 note 1 Mentioned also by as–Suyūtī, Muzhir (1325 ed.), i, 241; Bughyat al–wu'āt (1326 ed.), p. 118; Hājī Khalfa, iii, 490.

page 580 note 2 Muzhir, i, 242 GAL. (2), ii, 236.

page 580 note 3 Bughyat al–uu'āt, p. 118.

page 580 note 4 Quoted also in 'Uyūn al–akhbār, ed. Brockelmann, p. 373.

page 581 note 1 Quoted also in an–Nuwairī's Nihāyat al–arab, pt. 4, p. 117. I am indebted to Mr. M. Minovi for this reference.

page 581 note 2 The full Arabic text is printed in Noeldeke′s Delectus, pp. 26, 27.

page 582 note 1 Koran, xlvii, 16.