classical arabic philology and poetry

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CLASSICAL ARABIC PHILOLOGY AND POETRY
HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES
HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK
SECTION ONE
THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST
EDITED BY
H. ALTENMULLER • B. HROUDA • B.A. LEVINE • R.S. O'FAHEY
K.R. VEENHOF • C.H.M. VERSTEEGH
VOLUME SIXTY-THREE
CLASSICAL ARABIC PHILOLOGY AND POETRY
A BIBLIOGHRAPHIGAL HANDBOOK OF IMPORTANT EDITIONS
FROM 1960 TO 2000
KLASSICH-ARABISCHE PHILOLOGIE UND POESIE
EIN BIBLIOGRAPHISCHES HANDBUCH WICHTIGER
EDITIONEN VON 1960 BIS 2000
CLASSICAL ARABIC PHILOLOGY
AND POETRY
A Bibliographical Handbook of Important Editions
from 1960 to 2000
BY
REINHARD WEIPERT
BRILL
LEIDEN • BOSTON • KOLN
2002
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
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Weipert, Reinhard.
Classical Arabic philology and poetry : a bibliographical handbook of
important editions from 1960-2000 / by Reinhard Weipert.
p. cm. — (Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, the Near
and Middle East, ISSN 0169-9423 ; v. 63 = Handbuch der Orientalistik)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 9004123423 (alk. paper)
1. Arabic philology—Bibliography. 2. Arabic poetry—Bibliography.
I. Title: Klassisch-Arabische philologie und poesie. II. Title. III. Handbuch
der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; v. 63.
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CONTENTS/INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
Introduction/Einleitung vii
Abbreviations/Abkiirzungen xiii
I. Authors and Works/Auto re n und Werke 1
II. Anonymous Works and Collections of Texts/Anonyma
und Sammelwerke 135
III. Poets/Dichter 147
IV. Anonymous Poems and Modern Collections/Anonyme
Gedichte und moderne Sammlungen 201
Supplement 217
Indexes
Index I. Titles/Buchertitel 221
Index II. Transmitters and Commentators/Uberlieferer
und Kommentatoren 249
Index III. Editors/Herausgeber ...'. 253
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INTRODUCTION/EINLEITUNG
When Johann Fuck published his history of the Arabic language in
1950,1 most of his reviewers admired his profound knowledge of
Classical Arabic philology and his wide reading.2 In his bibliogra-
phy he lists more than 200 texts, at that time a nearly comprehen-
sive survey of what has been available after the Second World War.
This situation changed rapidly in the sixties, when Arab scholars,
mainly in Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, increasingly edited important
works. When I started studying comparative Semitic and Arabic
philology in 1970, Brockelmann's bibliography in his Arabische Grammatik
(16th editon 1965) was of course still valuable and an excellent guide
for the beginner, but while working on my dissertation I soon rec-
ognized that it became daily more difficult to keep pace with the
various turdt-works printed in a growing number of Near Eastern
and North African countries. Like all other Arabists I heartily wel-
comed the appearance of Sezgin's Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums,
which was primarily conceived as a supplement to the GAL (vol. I,
1965), but later developed to become an independent literary his-
tory surpassing the GAL in many ways. This became clearly visible
in the volumes dealing with poetry (1975), lexicography (1982) and
grammar (1984), which were highly appreciated by all philologists
and specialists of classical poetry, though still they had to complain
about the fact that the author had covered only the first four cen-
turies A.H.
Therefore Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur never
ceased to be the authoritative reference work for the whole of Arabic
literature produced after the 5th century A.H., but has became more
and more outdated in the last two decades. As the same is true for
1 Johann Fuck: Arabiya. Untersuchungen zur arabischen Sprach- und Stilgeschichte. Berlin
1950 (Abhandlungen der Sachsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig,
Philologisch-historische Klasse, Bd. 45, Heft 1).
2 Cf. above all Hans Wehr in ZDMG 102 (1952), 180 and Anton Spitaler in
Bibliotheca Orientalis 10 (1953), 144 = Anton Spitaler: Philokgica. Beitrage zur Arabistik
und Semitistik. Ed. by Hartmut Bobzin. With Indexes by Stefan Weninger. Wiesbaden
1998 (Diskurse der Arabistik 1), 504.
Vlll INTRODUCTION
the GAS, of which important parts dealing with adab, baldga, ethics
etc. were never published, I decided to write supplements to vols.
II,3 VIII and IX4 in order to provide the reader with the latest infor-
mation on the material that the constant growth of editorial work
in Arab countries has produced. It goes without saying that this task
was extremely wearisome, mainly due to the almost complete absence
of bibliographies compiled by Arab scholars themselves, who merely
confined their activities to translating GAL and GAS into Arabic. We
still lack a practical guide to printed books in the Arab world like
the Mu'gam of SarkTs,3 which had been a very complete catalogue of
books published up to 1919, and have to content ourselves with a
few elementary bibliographical compilations whose reliability and
completeness is in general not sufficient. One should mention for
example al-Munaggid's Mu'gam,6 which gives a list of edited classi-
cal texts from 1954 to 1980 (about 1600 entries), or the Daha'ir at-
turdt al-carabi al-isldml by cAbdalgabbar 'Abdarrahman7 (about 4500
entries), who pretends to list all existent printed tumt-texts up to
1980. At first glance Salihlya's8 al-Mucgam as-sdmil li-t-turdt al-'ambi
al-matbuc seemed to be a very promising attempt to fill the gap; a
closer look at it, however, immediately reveals many mistakes and
numerous lacunae. In addition to these shortcomings the manuscript
of volume IV, which contained the authors from cAin to Lam, has
disappeared during the Gulf War in Kuwait and so the materials
3 Beitrdge zur Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. In: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte
der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 2 (1985), 235-276 and: Literaturkundliche
Materialien zur dlteren arabischen Poesie. In: Oriens 32 (1990), 328-374.
4 Beitrdge zur Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. II. Lexikographie und Grammatik.
In: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 5 (1989),
225-264.
D Yusuf Ilyas Sarlus: Mu'gam al-matbucdt al-carablya wa-l-mucarraba wa-huwa sdmil li-
asmd' al-kutub al-matbu'afi l-aqtdr as-sarqlya wa-l-garblya mafa djkr asmd' mu'alliflhd wa-
lum'a min targamatihim wa-dalika min yaum zuhur at-tibd'a ila nihdyat as-sana al-hignya
1339 al-muwafiqa li-sanat 1919 mlladiya. Cairo 1928-30. For the following years see
also the author's Gamf at-tasamf al-hadlta allatl tubfat ji l-bilad as-sarqlya wa-l-garblya
wa-l-amnklya min sanat 1920 ila sanat 1926 mlladlya al-muwafiqa li-sinl l-higra min 1339
ila 1345. Cairo 1345/1927.
6 Salahaddm al-Munaggid: Mu'gam al-mahtutdt al-matbu(a. 1954—1980. 5 vols. 2nd
edition. Beirut 1978-82.
7 'Abdalgabbar "Abdarrahman: Daha'ir at-turdt al-carabl al-isldml. Dalll bibliyugrafl
li-l-mahtutat al-carablya al-matbuca hattd 'am 1980. 2 vols. Basra 1401-03/1981-83.
8 Muhammad clsa Salihfya: al-Mucgam as-samil li-t-turdt al-carabl al-matbuc. Vol. I:
Alif-Td'.'Cairo 1992. Vol. II: Glm-Ddl. Vol. Ill: Rd'-£d\ Cairo 1993. Vol. V: Mlm-
Td} wa-kutub maghulat al-mu'allifin. Cairo 1995.
EINLEITUNG IX
for this volume have to be collected once again. The Institute of
Arabic Manuscripts in Cairo, which initially published this frag-
mentary work of limited usefulness not without a certain pride, mean-
while tries to improve its quality by printing supplements, of which
part I9 and II,10 covering the letters Alif to Dal, as well as a bibli-
ography of printed divans and collections of poetical fragments11 are
already available. However it may be, it seems very uncertain that
this bibliography will ever be accomplished so that its promising title
will become really true for those who use it.
Despite some excellent studies for specific regions, e.g. the Textes
arabes anciens edites en Egypte which have been meticulously described
and commented upon by Claude Gilliot since 1989,12 nobody in
Europe or America nowadays seems to be willing or capable to per-
form such a task on a larger basis, i.e. to correct, update or sup-
plement both GAL and GAS13 in an appropriate manner. For me
there is no doubt that this would overburden any individual and
could never be realized except by a group of scholars; I am pes-
simistic enough to say that in a period in which the checking of
information provided by the Internet sometimes seems to be esteemed
more highly than the patient reading of books and research work
in libraries, no project of updating the existing biobibliographical
surveys of the Arabic literature like GAL and GAS or rewriting them
from the beginning will be carried out in the near future.
But how can this situation be changed? The only answer that can
be given now is that one should not try to reach for the stars by
treating Arabic literature as a whole, but to improve our knowledge
within selected parts of it step by step. This has been my intention
during the past years, in which I have attempted to keep up with
the documentation of editions and studies dealing with classical Arabic
philology and poetry. The more materials I have collected the more
I have realized that it does not make much sense to record most of
9 Hilal NagT: al-Mucgam . . . Vol. I: Alif-Td\ al-Mustadrak L Cairo 1996.
10 'Umar 'Abdassalam at-Tadmun: al-Mu'gam . . . Vol. II: Glm-Ddl. al-Mustadrak 1.
Cairo 1997.
11 Muhammad Gabbar al-Mucaibid: Fihris dawdwin as-su'ara* wa-l-mustadrakat fl d-
daunyat wa-l-magami'. Cairo 1998 (Faharis musa'ida li-"l-Mucgam as-samil" 1).
12 In: Melanges de I'lnstitut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales du Caire 19ff. (1989ff.).
13 A useful compilation of /zaa^-literature has recently been published by Nagm
'Abdarrahman Halaf: Istidrdkdt 'aid Ta'rih at-turdt al-carabi li-Fu'dd Sazkin fi cilm al-
hadit. Beirut 2000.