[MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SCIENCES / FIRST TECHNICAL DICTIONARY IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD] Ta'rîfât Sayyid [with] Ma'a al-mutammimât fî al-hâshiyyah. [i.e. The book of definitions of Sayyid, with Supplementary]

ALI IBN MUHAMMAD AL-SHARIF AL-JURJÂNÎ, (1339-1414), Dar Al-Tibaat Al-Amire, Istanbul (Constantinople), [AH 1265] = 1848. Contemporary cloth bdg. Light green boards. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. 119 p., a drawn table. Occasionally stained on margins, loosened spine, otherwise a very good copy. Lithographed edition. Exceedingly rare early Arabic edition printed in Istanbul, of the first technical dictionary in alphabetical order of the Islamic world written by Medieval Islamic theologian Jurjani (1339-1414). The book contains definitions of about one thousand five hundred important scientific terms including such as philosophy, logic, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, commentary, hadith, fiqh, kalam, mysticism, Arabic language, and literature and it later became the main source of important lexicons of the Islamic literature such as Tahanavî's "Kashshafu istilahât al-funûn", Abul Baqa's "Kulliyyât", and Riza Tawfiqi's "Mufassal Qamus". This work is also known as only "Tarîfât". Tra