In his book Kitāb al-azmina wa-l-amkina (‘Book of Times and Places’), the Persian lexicographer Abū ʿAlī Marzūqī al-Iṣfahānī (d. 1030) includes a rare word denoting time: azlam. This word is explicitly linked to zalam, the arrow used in the Ǧāhiliyya for divination (istiqsām). This short paper offers some remarks on the term(s) denoting the concept of “arrow” in order to reconstruct the symbolism of this weapon and its relationship with temporality, time, fate, and destiny
Freccia, tempo, destino. A proposito di azlam
Mion G.
2026-01-01
Abstract
In his book Kitāb al-azmina wa-l-amkina (‘Book of Times and Places’), the Persian lexicographer Abū ʿAlī Marzūqī al-Iṣfahānī (d. 1030) includes a rare word denoting time: azlam. This word is explicitly linked to zalam, the arrow used in the Ǧāhiliyya for divination (istiqsām). This short paper offers some remarks on the term(s) denoting the concept of “arrow” in order to reconstruct the symbolism of this weapon and its relationship with temporality, time, fate, and destiny
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