Kitāb al-Uṣūl

Root 1 of 1,966, in Ibn Janāḥ’s own order: א–ב (ʾalef–bet), in his Arabic ا–ب (ʾalif–bāʾ).
From Kitāb al-Uṣūl, the Book of Roots of Abū al-Walīd Marwān ibn Janāḥ, page 53 of the edition by Blaise Webster and Marc Philip Boulos, OCABS Press. Read by Fāṭima.
The verses he hears it in: Song of Songs 6:11, Job 8:12, Ezekiel 47:12.
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What is Kitāb al-Uṣūl?

Every day, one root from Kitāb al-Uṣūl, the Book of Roots of Abū al-Walīd Marwān ibn Janāḥ (Córdoba and Zaragoza, eleventh century), in his own order, read by Fāṭima from the edition by Blaise Webster and Marc Philip Boulos, OCABS Press.

Ibn Janāḥ wrote in Arabic about the Hebrew of Scripture, working from the consonantal text: each root, the verses it is heard in, and its Arabic kin. From OCABS on the Ephesus School Network. Follow each root through the Consolation of Consonants at ocabs.org.