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JAWALIQI, ABU MANSUR MAUHUB

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JAWALIQI, See also:ABU MANSUR MAUHUB UL-JAWALIQI (1073-1145), Arabian grammarian, was See also:born at See also:Bagdad, where he studied See also:philology under Tibrizi and became famous for his See also:handwriting. In his later years he acted as See also:imam to the See also:caliph Moqtafi. His See also:chief See also:work is the Kitdb ul-Mu'arrab, or " Explanation of See also:Foreign Words used in Arabic." The See also:text was edited from an incomplete See also:manuscript by E. Sachau (See also:Leipzig, 1867). Many of the lacunae in this have been supplied from another manuscript by W. See also:Spitta in the See also:Journal of the See also:German See also:Oriental Society, xxxiii. 208 sqq. Another work, written as a supplement to the Durrat ul-Ghawwas of Hariri (q.v.), has been published as " Le Livre See also:des locutions vicieuses," by H. See also:Derenbourg in Morgenldndische Forschungen (Leipzig, 1875), pp. 107-166. (G. W.

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