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Date: 06 Apr 2007
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The Early Islamic Grammatical Tradition

Ramzi Baalbaki
Series: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World

The last decades have witnessed a major resurgence of interest in the  
Arabic grammatical tradition. Many of the issues on which previous  
scholarship focused - for example, foreign influences on the  
beginnings of grammatical activity, and the existence of grammatical  
"schools" - have been revisited, and new areas of research have been  
opened up, particularly in relation to terminology, the analytical  
methods of the grammarians, and the interrelatedness between grammar  
and other fields such as the study of the Qur'an, exegesis and logic.  
As a result, not only has the centrality of the Arabic grammatical  
tradition to Arab culture as a whole become an established fact, but  
also the fields of general and historical linguistics have finally  
come to realize the importance of Arabic grammar as one of the major  
linguistic traditions of the world. The sixteen studies included in  
this volume have been chosen to highlight the themes which occupy  
modern scholarship and the problems which face it; while the  
introductory essay analyses these themes within the wider context of  
early Islamic activity in philology as well as related areas of  
religious studies and philosophy.

  Contents
General editor's preface; Introduction.The Beginnings of Arabic  
Grammar: The origins of Arabic grammar, M.G. Carter; The logic of Ibn  
al-Muqaffa` and the origins of Arabic grammar, Gérard Troupeau;  
Grammar and exegesis: the origins of Kufan grammar and the Tafsir  
Muqatil, Kees Versteegh; On the Greek influence on Arabic grammar,  
Frithiof Rundgren; Schacht's theory in the light of recent  
discoveries concerning the origins of Arabic grammar, Rafael Talmon;  
Indian influence on early Arab phonetics - or coincidence?, Vivien  
Law. Analytical Methods of the Grammarians: Language and logic in  
classical Islam, Muhsin Mahdi; Aspects of debate and explanation  
among Arab grammarians, Georges Bohas; The relation between nahw and  
balaga: a comparative study of the methods of Sibawayhi and Gurgani,  
Ramzi Baalbaki; The fundamental principles of the Arab grammarians'  
theory of `amal, Aryeh Levin; The notion of `illa in Arabic  
linguistic thinking, Yasir Suleiman. Major Themes in Grammatical  
Study: The syntactic basis of Arabic word classification, Jonathan  
Owens; Speech consists entirely of noun, verb and  
particle:elaboration and discussion of the theory of parts of speech  
in the Arabic grammatical tradition, Jean-Patrick Guillaume; Noun,  
substantive and adjective according to Arab grammarians, Werner Diem;  
Subject and predicate in Arab grammatical tradition, Gideon  
Goldenberg; Relationships between linguistics and other sciences in  
Arabo-Islamic society, Pierre Larcher. Index.

  About the Author/Editor
Ramzi Baalbaki is Professor of Arabic at the American University of  
Beirut, the Lebanon. He is also the author of Grammarians and  
Grammatical Theory in the Medieval Arabic Tradition (Ashgate/ 
Variorum, 2004).

  Further Information
Affiliation: Ramzi Baalbaki, American University of Beirut, The Lebanon
ISBN: 0 86078 718 4
Publication Date: 02/2007
Number of Pages: 416 pages
Binding: Hardback
Binding Options: Available in Hardback only
Book Size: 244 x 169 mm
British Library Reference: 492.7'5
Library of Congress Reference: 2006932215
ISBN-13 978-0-86078-718-1

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