C J Lyall

Biographic Data

ID4511048
NAMEC J Lyall
GIVEN NAMESC J
FAMILY NAMELyall
SIGNATURELYALL C J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1904
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1918
H-INDEX0

  • IV. Four Poems by Ta'abbaṭa Sharra, the Brigand-Poet

    Open AccessCharles Lyall, C J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1918

    Some time ago I endeavoured to explain to an audience in this room the predominantly pictorial character of the ancient poetry of the Arabs, and gave as illustrations some passages from the poets, chiefly describing the fauna of the wilderness and the landscape in which their life was set, and showing the minute observation and vivid sympathy which the artist brought to bear upon his subject. I wish, now, to continue the same theme by setting bef…

  • The Meaning of the Words 'alà Ḥubbihi in Qur. II, 172

    Open AccessCatherine Lyall, C J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1914

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  • VI. The Relation of the Old Arabian Poetry to the Hebrew Literature of the Old Testament

    C J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1914

    Three years ago, in his Schweich Lectures on “The Early Poetry of Israel in its Physical and Social Origins”, Dr. George Adam Smith gave us a detailed examination of all the remains of ancient Hebrew poetry contained in the Old Testament which he thought might reasonably be assigned to the period before the eighth century b.c. , that notable century which saw the rise of the great Prophets—Amos, Hosea, Micah, Isaiah—who brought to the religion of…

  • III. Ancient Arabian Poetry as a Source of Historical Information

    Open AccessC J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1914

    The conquest of the Persian and half of the Byzantine Empire by the Arabs, under the banner of Islam in the seventh century, was one of the most extraordinary events in the history of the world. On the one side were ranged the forces of two highly-organized military powers, Imperial New Rome and Imperial Persia, which for over three centuries had been engaged in constant conflict with each other. Although this necessarily tended to exhaust the ma…

  • Julius Euting

    Open AccessC J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1913

    SEMITIC learning, especially in the department of epigraphy, has suffered a severe loss in the death, at Strassburg, on the night of January 1-2, 1913, of Professor Julius Euting

  • Metre

    C J LyallARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…1912

  • Sībawaihi or Sībūyah

    Open AccessC J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1912

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  • The Pearl-Diver of Al-A'sha

    Open AccessC J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1912

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  • Two Indian Tribes

    Charles Lyall, C J Lyall et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1909

  • Ubalike = Ubārī

    Open AccessC J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1908

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  • Sir William Muir

    Open AccessC J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1905

    THE death, on the 11th July last, of Sir William Muir, at the ripe age of 86, lias brought to an end a life of remarkable activity and achievement in a number of different fields of effort. Of his long and distinguished career as an administrator in India, which lasted from 1837 to 1876

  • XVI. A Projected Edition of the Mufaddaliyat

    Open AccessCharles Lyall, C J LyallARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1904

    In 1885 Professor Heinrich Thorbecke, then of Heidelberg, published the first part of his edition of the collection of selected ancient Arabic poems ( , or , or ), made, at the instance of the Caliph al-Manṣūr, for the instruction of his son, afterwards the Caliph al-Mahdī, by Abu-l-‘Abbās al-Mufaḍḍal, of the tribe of Ḍabbah (died 168). This collection, more generally known as the Mufaḍḍalīyāt , consisted, according to the Kitāb al-Fihrist (p. 68…