8vo. [9 pp. introduction], 357 pp., [3], Arabic text edited & introduced by Muhammad Rida, first two pages slightly loose, modern hard back binding, paper slightly browned, Matba’at al-Tarqi, Cairo, 1319-1320 A. H / 1902.

Synopsis

Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414), encyclopaedic writer and traditionalist theologian was born near Astarabad and became a professor in Shiraz. When Timur plundered this city in 1387, he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death.
Of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is this work on Arabic lexicography.