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
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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