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Title | Amthāl Or. 7063 |
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Statement of responsibility | by ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Aḥmad |
Creator/other | ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Aḥmad |
Shelfmark | Or. 7063 |
Note | Collection of 1497 proverbs and proverbial sayings, in the Egyptian vernacular, collected by C. Snouck Hurgonje (1857-1936), on slips, arranged alphabetically. The Nos. 19, 745, 839, 1452, 1458, 1473, 1475 and 1498 and following are missing. Snouck Hurgronje's informant for this collection was the Egyptian scholar 'Abd al-Raḥīm Aḥmad, teacher and later (between 1911 and 1916) director of the Cairene Dar al-'Ulūm. The cards of Snouck Hurgronje are based on a number of exercise books with proverbs which were collected by 'Abd al-Raḥīm Aḥmad and some of his colleagues of the Dar al-'Ulūm. Among the latter was also Maḥmūd 'Umar al-Bagūrī. In 1311/1893 he published the collection under his own name with the title Kitāb Amthāl al-Mutakallimīn min 'Awāmm al-Misriyyīn (Cairo, al-Matba`a al-Sharqiyya. See now also A. Vrolijk, 'Proverbial misunderstandings. The sources of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje's collection of Egyptian proverbs', in Der Islam 79 (2002), pp. ??. Or. 7120, below, contains notes in Dutch by Snouck Hurgronje on these proverbs and sayings. |
Reference | Voorhoeve 1980, |
Language | Arabic |
Country | Egypt |
Extent | online resource |
Published/created | [Place of manufacture not identified], 1893. |
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Published (digital) | Leiden University Libriaries, |