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Book of Rain
Engelsk
Bogcover for Book of Rain af Ab Zayd al-Anr, 9798891060364
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9798891060364
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
8891060364
Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
24,7 x 17,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2025
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Book of Rain

Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud. So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic linguist Abu Zayd al-An?ari. In Larsen’s translation, Abu Zayd’s lexicography of rain is simultaneously an academic, archival, and poetic pursuit. After the fashion of Larsen’s award-winning translation of Names of the Lion, these rich, extensive lists provide detailed descriptions of specific kinds of rainfall, including al-tahtan, or “The Outpour,” a kind of continual rain, or al-wa?fa’, or “The Beetle-Brow” which  is a “briskly-flowing rain that is counted among the continual rains, whether it is of long or short falling.” Here, we are provided language for frosts, dews, thunder, lightning, clouds, and, of course, the various and plentiful words for waters. Coupled with Larsen’s introduction, the Book of Rain is a source of endless interdisciplinary inquiry which will continue to fascinate readers for centuries to come.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9798891060364
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
8891060364
Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
24,7 x 17,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2025
Forfatter(e):
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