title: Three manuscript copies of the Collection of Proverbs by al-Maydānī from the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Oriental Department of Gorky Library, St. Petersburg State University, and the National Library of Berlin
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metadata.value: Hana, Yafia Y. J.
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metadata.value: Akhmatshina, Enesh K.
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metadata.value: Mokrushina, Amaliia A.
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metadata.value: 2018-08-16T15:01:15Z
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metadata.value: 2018-08-16T15:01:15Z
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metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.value: Hana Y. Y. J., Mokrushina A. A., Akhmatshina E. K. Three manuscript copies of the Collection of Proverbs by al-Maydānī from the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Oriental Department of Gorky Library, St. Petersburg State University, and the National Library of Berlin. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, pp. 210–229.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu13.2018.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14746
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metadata.value: This paper presents an analysis of three manuscript copies of the Collection of Proverbs by
  the famous Muslim scholar-linguist al-Maydānī. Two of the copies are part of St Petersburg
  manuscript collections: the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian
  Academy of Sciences and the collection of the Oriental Department of Gorky Library at St.
  Petersburg State University. The third copy is part of the holdings of the National Library of
  Berlin. The al-Maydānī Collection of Proverbs is a collection of Arabic proverbs arranged in
  an alphabetical order. Each proverb is accompanied by a commentary on individual words,
  grammatical constructions, and the origins and uses of the proverbs. The collection is prefaced
  by the author and includes twenty-eight chapters, one for each letter of the Arabic alphabet.
  Two additional chapters contain the list of Arab battle dates, the sayings of Muhammad
  and some prominent figures of Islam. Interest in the work al-Maydānī is still alive today; his
  work Mağma ‘al-’amṯāl continues to be reprinted. Most proverbs, which the author included
  in his work several centuries ago, are widely used to this day. The study of the surviving copies
  of this manuscript makes it possible to get the most complete impression of one of the largest
  and most important works of the Arab thinker and scholar al-Maydānī, and also enables researchers
  to look at the whole cultural and historical layer through the prism of proverbs used
  in living speech.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 10; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: codicology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arabic manuscript
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: manuscript copies
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metadata.value: Arabic
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metadata.value: proverbs
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: folklore
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Three manuscript copies of the Collection of Proverbs by al-Maydānī from the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Oriental Department of Gorky Library, St. Petersburg State University, and the National Library of Berlin
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metadata.value: Article
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