Guiding Western readers through the endlessly fascinating and complicated system of Islamic personal names, Annemarie Schimmel's directory touches upon almost every aspect of Islamic life.
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Offers a tantalising glimpse into Islamic personal names. This volume is a mostuseful addition to the books on Islamic names. Covers a great deal of ground and many different disciplines and has much value for almost any student of Islam. An excellent reference and compendium for Islamic names. Professor Schimmel is to be commended for bringing extreme diversity and detail into a very interesting and highly useful document. -- Names: A Journal of Onomastics Offers a tantalising glimpse into Islamic personal names. This volume is a mostuseful addition to the books on Islamic names. Covers a great deal of ground and many different disciplines and has much value for almost any student of Islam. An excellent reference and compendium for Islamic names. Professor Schimmel is to be commended for bringing extreme diversity and detail into a very interesting and highly useful document.
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This review is from: Islamic Names: An Introduction (Islamic Surveys) (Paperback)
A tidy book from Edinburgh University Press: 137 pp in trade paperback.
TABLE OF CONTENTS The Structure of a Name - ism or 'alam; kunya; nasab; nisba; laqab Born on a Friday - The naming of a child Help from God - Religious name-giving Mothers of the Faithful - The naming of girls Lions, Moons, Roses - the nickname or laqab A Name Too Heavy to Bear - changes and transformations of the names Appendix: Some Notes on Turkish Family Names Notes (10 pp) Bibliography (6 pp) Index of Personal Names (30 pp) Index of Places, Ethnic Groups, and Languages Index of Qur'anic Verses Glossary of Technical Terms
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- Muslim Studies (v. 1) by Ignaz Goldziher in Back Matter
- Central Asia: Pre-Historic to Pre-Modern Times by Babajan G. Gafurov on page 77
- Arabic Grammar (Dover Language Guides) by W. Wright in Back Matter
- Encyclopedia Of Islam by Clifford Edmund Bosworth in Back Matter
- Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past by D. A. Spellberg on 5 pages
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