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Arabic place name types of the Islamic period: Their derivation and distribution

Arabic place name types of the Islamic period: Their derivation and distribution AI-Masaq, 2, 1989 ARABIC PLACE NAME TYPES OF THE ISLAMIC PERIOD: THEIR DERIVATION AND DISTRIBUTION Benedikt S.J. Isserlin University of Leeds The names given to inhabited localities in Arabic speaking countries have up to now received remarkably little systematic scholarly attention. In Europe, place name research has been undertaken over several generations now, and it has offered valuable evidence concerning historical and social processes active in the past; as against this, Arabic place names have so far only been minimally studied as a whole (though there have been a number of studies of Arabic toponymy in individual Arabic speaking countries or regions), and they have not served to a similar extent in historical or social investigations. 1 In 1986, there appeared a study by the writer dealing in outline with the early place names of Arabia, and comparing these with those found in the Arabic speaking world in the Islamic period,^ and in the same year a paper devoted in part to the Arabic place names of North Africa was also published.^ Both papers dealt only with the names of inhabited places: the large mass of names given to features of the landscape, and which long ago attracted the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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AI-Masaq, 2, 1989 ARABIC PLACE NAME TYPES OF THE ISLAMIC PERIOD: THEIR DERIVATION AND DISTRIBUTION Benedikt S.J. Isserlin University of Leeds The names given to inhabited localities in Arabic speaking countries have up to now received remarkably little systematic scholarly attention. In Europe, place name research has been undertaken over several generations now, and it has offered valuable evidence concerning historical and social processes active in the past; as against this, Arabic place...
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AI-Masaq, 2, 1989 ARABIC PLACE NAME TYPES OF THE ISLAMIC PERIOD: THEIR DERIVATION AND DISTRIBUTION Benedikt S.J. Isserlin University of Leeds The names given to inhabited localities in Arabic speaking countries have up to now received remarkably little systematic scholarly attention. In Europe, place name research has been undertaken over several generations now, and it has offered valuable evidence concerning historical and social processes active in the past; as against this, Arabic place names have so far only been minimally studied as a whole (though there have been a number of studies of Arabic toponymy in individual Arabic speaking countries or regions), and they have not served to a similar extent in historical or social investigations. 1 In 1986, there appeared a study by the writer dealing in outline with the early place names of Arabia, and comparing these with those found in the Arabic speaking world in the Islamic period,^ and in the same year a paper devoted in part to the Arabic place names of North Africa was also published.^ Both papers dealt only with the names of inhabited places: the large mass of names given to features of the landscape, and which long ago attracted the

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Published: Jan 1, 1989

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