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Arabic-English Lexicon (Islamic Texts Society)

Arabic-English Lexicon (Islamic Texts Society)
By E.W. Lane

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The most scholarly dictionary of the Arabic language available. This work is the product of over thirty years of unrelenting labour. It is a work of such unique greatness that, since its first appearance almost 150 years ago, it has remained to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography. No scholar or group of scholars has produced anything to supplant it. As it originally appeared and was later reproduced, the Lexicon consisted of eight large, cumbersome volumes, which made it difficult to use. Now, for the first time, the Islamic Texts Society has, with no loss whatsoever of clarity or legibility, brought together the eight large volumes into two compact volumes; it is now possible to keep the Lexicon on the work desk and refer to it with ease.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #2554994 in Books
  • Published on: 1984-01-01
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 3064 pages

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PDF can be downloaded legally for FREE5
Just wanted to let folks know that as of 12/2006 Lane's Lexicon can be downloaded FREE as a PDF (legally). The HUGE PDF file is somewhat cumbersome, but considering that you are saving $450 I think it's worth it. Just do a Google search and you are sure to find it.

Lane's Lexicon5
Lane's Lexicon is by far the biggest and most comprehensive dictionary of Arabic terms translated into the English Language. Arabic, the richest language on earth is the Language by which God revealed his Qur'an in order to teach mankind that which we did not know. Only because God has preserved His Qur'an through it's memorisation and committed study at the hands of Muslim scholars and their students the Arabic Language has too been preserved. Modern Arabic still depends on this Classical Qur'anic Arabic for it's basis and point of reference.For this reason Lane's Lexicon is indispensable in the study and translation of Arabic texts.