Kitāb al-Muwashshā / taʼlīf Abī al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Isḥaq ibn Yaḥyā al-Washshāʼ.

  • Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad al- Waššāʾ
Date:
1302 [1886]
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    PREFACE. The text published for the first time in this volume is a work of a comparatively little-known grammarian, who lived in the latter half of the third and beginning of the fourth century A. H. (= circa A. D. 800—936). His name is given by different authors with slight variations. The Fihrist (p. ao, 1. 17) has Abu Tayyib Muhammed ibn Ahmad ibn Ishaq '), as also Ibn al-Anbari (ed. Bulaq, p. (vf ^), al-Qifti (Cat. Lugd. I, p. 205) and as-Suyuti (ib. p. 206); the three latter add ibn Yahya after Ishaq. On the title-pages of this work, however, the author’s father is called Ishaq ibn Yahya ’); but the former name would appear to be the cor¬ rect one. It is also not quite certain whether the cognomen a 1-W a § belonged to him or to his father; whereas the Fihrist, Suyuti, and the title-pages of this work *) apply it to him, in Ibn al-Anbari, Qifti and at thfe* end of vol. I(p. aI) he is called Ibn al-Wa§§a. The appellation of »vendor of richly- variegated cloth ®) may have been applied to our author in a metaphorical sense, like the name al-Farra *); it is even possible 1) The Fihr. and Qifti call him al-A'rabi; and he is also usually styled „the Grammarian” 2) For ^ read of course 3) Also mentioned by Suyuti (1. c.). 4) On these and on p. t**, 1, 5 falsely written cfr. p. aI. 5) Cfr. Dozy, Suppl. voce 6) Fliigel, Grammat. Schulen p. 129.