https://hcommons.org/members/lrsn/activity/ Activity feed for David Larsen. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:23:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6aaf0ab568ad724a055bca3ff98802a8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882061/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:09:50 -0400 This article takes a close look at the word _maʿnā_ as analyzed by Abbasid-era authorities on the Arabic language, chiefly Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004). The word’s context-sensitivity and polysemy are well known; less well appreciated are the lexical and morphological preconditions for _maʿnā_’s diversity of meanings across the disciplines. Even les…[Read more]

]]> 0 f79afb5d21cb2f31b2bc76193fc69374 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881804/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:20:09 -0400 _Ghazal_ is the Arabic word for “amatory verse”, and in other languages of the Islamic world it designates a sonnet-like poetic form. The notion that the word stems from Arabic _ghazl_ “spinning thread” is widely held, despite the absence of support for this in classical lexicography and poetry criticism. Comparison to Semitic cognates points…[Read more]

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