Publisher's Synopsis
The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labour, Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon is the most scholarly dictionary of the Arabic language available. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon is a work of such unique greatness that, since its first appearance almost 150 years ago, it has never been supplanted and remains supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography.
As it originally appeared and was later reproduced, Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon consisted of eight large, cumbersome volumes, which made it difficult to use. Now, for the first time, the Islamic Texts Society has, with no loss whatsoever of clarity or legibility, brought together the eight large volumes into two compact volumes; it is now possible to keep the Arabic-English Lexicon on the work desk and refer to it with ease.
