Anecdota Oxoniensia

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Excerpt from Anecdota Oxoniensia: The Letters of Abu L-¿ala of Ma¿arrat Al-Nu'man, Edited From the Leyden Manucsript, With the Life of the Author by Al-Dhahabi and With Translation, Notes, Indices, and BiographyThe interpretation is constantly a matter of considerable difficulty, and the handbook which the author compiled in elucidation of his Letters would be of great help. In parts they are a tissue of quota tions and allusions. Where the sources of these are known, the meaning can be made out with tolerable certainty: elsewhere there is great danger of falling into error. And, as the author was blind and unable to verify his references, his quotations frequently contain some inaccuracy, and it may be suspected that some of the passages in which the difficulty seems insuperable owe their character to slips of memory on the author's part. He tells us 1, too, that owing to his pronunciation some of the sounds would be likely to be misrepresented by those to whom he dictated, and of this the Beyrut and Leyden texts offer examples.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.