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Subject(s)

• Sībawayh, ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān active 8th century [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Arabic language—Congresses [Browse]

Editor

• Sartori, Manuel, 1975- [Browse]
• Binaghi, Francesco [Browse]

Series

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 107. [More in this series]

Summary note

The book is a collection of ten research papers in which leading scholars approach different aspects of the study of Arabic grammar in medieval times, starting with the venerable figure of Sībawayhi (d. 180/796?) and spanning from al-Andalus to the Islamic East.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Intro
• ‎Contents
• ‎Notes on Contributors
• ‎Introduction (Sartori and Binaghi)
• ‎Part 1. The Critical Theory of Sībawayhi's Kitāb
• ‎Chapter 1. Ṭūl al-kalām in the Kitāb (Carter)
• ‎Chapter 2. 'A Little Yesterday': The "Canonical" Text of Sībawayhi's Teaching Confronted to Two Unedited Manuscripts of the Kitāb (Amharar and Druel)
• ‎Chapter 3. Arabic Grammar and Qurʾānic Scholarship in 2nd/8th Century's Basra: A Comparative Analysis of the Qurʾānic Material Found in the Kitāb Sībawayhi and in al-ʾAḫfaš al-ʾAwsaṭ's Maʿānī al-Qurʾān (Villano and Lancioni)
• ‎Chapter 4. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition after Sībawayhi: A Study in the Profile of the Speaker (Dayyeh)
• ‎Chapter 5. Referencing Sībawayhi: The Reception of the Kitāb as a Source (Olivieri)
• ‎Chapter 6. Grammar and the radd Genre in al-Andalus (Binaghi)
• ‎Part 2. Further Developments of the Critical Theory
• ‎Chapter 7. Fārābī against the Grammarians?? (Hodges and Giolfo)
• ‎Chapter 8. Ibn al-Sarrāǧ's Classification of Pseudo-Objects and the Grammatical Concept of faḍla (Okazaki)
• ‎Chapter 9. Suprasegmental Criteria in Medieval Arabic Grammar (Sartori)
• ‎Chapter 10. On Interpretation of the Pronoun huwa in 112/1 of the Qurʾān: Tafsīr and Grammar (Sakaedani)
• ‎Index Operum
• ‎Index Nominum
• ‎Index Rerum.

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ISBN

90-04-51589-5

OCLC

1333084442

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