Item Summary

A tract refuting those who advocate the replacement of the classical Arabic by the colloquial as a written language.

Descriptive Information

Title
نبذة في ابطال رأى القائلين بترك اللغة العربية الصحيحه واستبدالها باللغة العامية في الكتب والكتابة / لامين فكري بك.
Transliterated Title
Nubdhah fī ibṭāl raʼy al-qāʼilīn bi-tark al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah al-ṣaḥīḥah wa-istibdālihā bi-al-lughah al-ʻāmmīyah fī al-kutub wa-al-kitābah / li-Amīn Fikrī Bik.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 87L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcj098zq153
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1889
Extent
28 leaves : paper ; 197 x 135 (150 x 80) mm bound to 202 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 485.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. The author, an Egyptian official, was a representative at the Congress of Orientalists at Stockholm.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 28 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: MS in good condition. Rare.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 12 Ṣafar 1307 by Muḥammad Rayḥān (fol. 28a).
Incipit: ذهب بعض الناظربن في اللغات الشرقية من رجال اوربا الى ان اللغة العربية المستعملة للتخاطب اليوم في البلاد والتى يتكلم فيها باللسان العربى ...
Colophon: تم بقلم کاتبه محمد ريحان في 12 صفر الخير سنة 1307 هجرية
Binding Note
Contemporaneous quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue and red marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
68

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ccfb9caf-99cf-4329-811c-badb0eefa766/manifest