SāmSeth son of Noah.
SībawayhiAbū Bishr ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar Sībawayhi (or Sībawayh) (second/eighth century), the creator of systematic Arabic grammar. By the fourth/tenth century, his only work, Kitāb Sībawayhi, was firmly established as the foundation of a grammatical system that has remained essentially unchanged to the present (Meisami and Starkey, Encyclopedia, 2:718).
SulaymānSolomon.
Surra Man RaʾāSamarra, a city in Iraq, capital of the Abbasid caliphate from 836 to 892; the name may be interpreted as “A Joy to All Who See It”.
Suyūṭī (al-), Jalāl al-Dīna prolific polymath (d. 911/1505), much of whose 500-work oeuvre compiles material taken from earlier scholars.
Waqāʾiʿ al-miṣriyyah (al-) the Egyptian official gazette (and the first newspaper issued, partially, in Arabic), established in December 1828.
Yashuʿ (al-) Elisha.
YūnusJonah.
YūsufJoseph.
Zabbāʾ (al-)Zenobia, queen of Tadmur in Syria during the third century AD.
INDEX
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abbots
ʿAbd al-Jalīl
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī
ʿAbd al-Qādir
Abīshalūm (Absalom)
Abū ʿAtāhiyah
Abū l-Baqā
Abū Nuwās
Abū Rushd ‘Brains’ ibn Ḥazm (character in Leg over Leg)
Abū Tammām
Abū l-Aswad al-Duʾalī
Abū l-ʿIbar
affections
Agag
Aḥmad Bāy
Aḥmad, Shaykh
al-Akhḍarī
Al-Bagdadi, Nadia
Alexandria, [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq in
air in
Arabs in
Bag-man/Bag-men in
Christians in
dress in
European banks
the Fāriyāq in
the Fāriyāq’s journey to
the Fāriyāq’s voyage/travel to
food eaten in
Franks in
headwear in
hospitality in
publishing industry
Reuters’ office
Turks in
waters in
women in
ʿAlī
al-Āmidī
al-Andalus
al-Anfūshī
Al-Ghurar al-ḥisān fī tārīkh ḥawādith al-zamān (al-Shidyāq)
Al-Jāsūs ʿalā l-Qāmūs (Spying on the Dictionary) (al-Shidyāq)
Al-Jawāʾib (Tidings from Afar) (periodical)
Al-Jinān (periodical)
Al-Muzhir fī l-lughah (The Luminous Work on Language) (al-Suyūṭī)
Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyyah (Egyptian Events) (periodical)
Amadeus VIII, Pope
Ambrose, Saint
al-Āmidī
Amīn, Qāsim
ʿAmr
ʿAmr ibn Luḥayy
anecdotes about poets
anqāṭ
Anṣārīs
ʿAntar
aphrodisiacs
Arab nationalism
“Arab rediscovery of Europe”
Arabic journalism
Arabic language, Baḥth al-maṭālib (The Discussion of Issues)
distinguishing feature of
the Fāriyāq as teacher of
Frankish pronunciation of
love and
Maronite patriarchs
oddities
priest’s pronunciation of
Qurʾan revealed in
rare words
students from the Mountain and
synonyms
translations into
Arabic literature, literary modernity
maqāmāt
renaissance in (see Nahḍah); riwāyah (“novel”)
sajʿ (rhymed prose)
translation and philology to
tropes. See also rhymed prose
Arabic poetry
Arabic publishing industry
Arabic script
Arabs
ʿAshūr, Raḍwā
al-Aṣmaʿī
aromas/perfumes, words for
asses
Atanāsiyūs al-Tutūnji
atheists
attire
authors
ʿAwaḍ, Luwīs
Bāb al-Iʿrāb (Gateway to Grammar) (Jirmānūs Farḥāt)
the bag, Bag-man/Bag-men’s preoccupation with
the Fāriyāq’s burden
point of
bag, women’s
Bag-man/Bag-men (Protestant missionaries), in Alexandria
the bag, preoccupation with
in Cairo
damage done by
English queens
the Fāriyāq and
indifference to people’s troubles
influence
language
Market-men
Market-man/Market-men, feuds with
Market-woman/ Market-women
payment by
pork-eating
prototype of
saddlebags
serving girl/maid
tools of the trade
weeping, instruction in
wife beating by
wife of a
Baguettes
Baḥth al-maṭālib (The Discussion of Issues)
Baʿīr Bayʿar
Basra
bawdiness
bayk (“bey”)
beardless boys
Benedict VII, Pope
Benedict VIII, Pope
Benedict IX, Pope
Bible
“Biblemen,”. See also Bag-man/Bag-men
Bilqīs
Bion
birds, words for
bird of a feather
Birjīs Bārīs (The Paris Jupiter) (periodical)
bishops
blackness (skin color)
bloodletting
body parts
Boniface VII, Pope
Book of Psalms
books, prologues to
bread, baked by monks
words for
the British
breastfeeding
Buhlūl
buildings, words for
Bulāq Press
Būlus Musʿad
burning, kinds of
al-Bustī
Buṭrus Yūsuf Ḥawwā
Cairo
air in
Bag-man/Bag-men in
catamites in
Christians in
curiosities of
Domestic Services Office
the Fāriyāq in
girls in
hashish use
hospitality in
joking in
lutes
markets in
men in
nighttime lanterns
people of
plague in
poets in
police chief
prices in
scholars in
singing in
trees unique to ʿAyn Shams suburb
Cambridge, England
carrying devices, words for
castles, words for
Catholicism. See Maronite Catholicism/Catholics
Celestine III, Pope
chain-man
chambers, words for
Chateaubriand, François-René
children
death of
children of cultivators
children’s resemblance to their fathers
China
Christ
Christian religion
books of
Christian shaykhs
Christianity
introduction into Frankish lands. See also Maronite Catholicism/Catholics
Christians
in Alexandria
best honorific for
in Cairo
divorce
in Egypt