Searchable Online Version Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ مختار الصحاح للرازي

Al-Razī is the surname of many Persian scholars, since it is a reference to the ancient city of Rey in Persia, today an outlying part of the capital of Iran, Tehran. Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī (d. c. 1268 CE / 666 AH) is the author of Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ, an abbreviation of Tāj al-Lugha by the Persian philologist al-Jawharī, with added improvements by the author. Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ has been one of the most successful dictionaries of the Arabic language for the past eight centuries, in print to this day. Unlike other dictionaries of the Arabic language, which aim for completeness, al-Razī's goal was the ease of use.