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  • 13 - Arabic and Onomastics

  • from Part III - Theoretical and Descriptive Studies
  • Edited by Karin Ryding, Georgetown University, Washington DC, David Wilmsen, American University of Beirut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics
    Published online:
    23 September 2021
    Print publication:
    30 September 2021, pp 309-329

  • Summary

    Terrence Potter contributes an overview of Arabic onomastics starting with the origin of Old Arabic or Proto-Arabic names known from epigraphic studies of pre-Islamic Semitic names, and from Nabatean inscriptions. He then proceeds to the analysis of Classical Arabic names and the importance of name structure to the discipline of Islamic genealogy. Citing the work of Ibn Kalbī, Ibn Durayd, and Ibn Ḥazm, Potter stresses ‘the importance of names in Arabo-Islamic society’ and discusses the interest of Western and Arab scholars in biographical texts in order to codify and organize knowledge of the historical content and context of Arab culture. He then examines the syntax and the lexical components of both male and female names and surveys traditional naming practices up to contemporary times.