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Arabic Numerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Nabia Abbott
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1938

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References

page 277 note 1 No attempt has been made to exhaust the works of the earliest grammarians. Such an effort may yet bring out the fact that this order of the numbers was permissible.

page 277 note 2 Arnold, and Grohmann, , The Islamic Book (Paris, 1929), p. 44Google Scholar.

page 277 note 3 Ibid.

page 278 note 1 Nos. 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, and 30 of the forthcoming catalogue of Ḳur'ānic manuscripts in the Oriental Institute.

page 278 note 2 Nos. 19 and 21 of the forthcoming publication.

page 279 note 1 Brockelmann, , Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der Semitischen Sprachen (Berlin, 1908), i, 489490Google Scholar; ii, 214, 278. Nöldeke, , Mandäische Grammatik (Halle, 1875), pp. 188–9Google Scholar. See also standard Syriac and Hebrewgrammars.

page 279 note 2 Ibid., of. also Gesenius, , Hebrew Grammar (Oxford, 1898), pp. 301, 455Google Scholar.

page 279 note 3 Arabic Palæography, plate 16, dated by Moritz, first–second century Hijrah.