Arabic-L:LING:Traditional Grammar Book Order

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1) Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order
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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: "Muhammad S. Eissa" <eissa at umich.edu>
Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order

Salaam All:

	Here is an attempt to respond to the following query:

>are the following books studied in traditionally, with the easiest
>first and the most difficult last:
>
>Awdah al-Masalik ila Alfiyah ibn Malik
>
>Shudhur al-Dhahab
>
>Mughni al-Labib
>
>Sharh ibn Aqueel
>
>al-Kafiah al-Shafiah
>
>I appreciate your help.



	The order from the easier to the less easier would be Ibn Aqiil,
Shuthur al-Dhahab, AwaDah al-masaalik then al-Kafia of Ibn Maalik. Mughni
al-Labiib is more of reference than a textbook due to its arrangement of
material and precondition. Below I will try to elaborate a bit.

  	Citing my grammar curriculum in the years of my study in Al-Azhar,
we started with Al-TuHfah al-Saniyya BisharH al-Muqaddima al-Ajrumiyya of
Muhammad muHiy al-Din AbdelHamid. This was the textbook for the first year
of the elementary level of al-ma`had al-dini (12-14 year old students).

	Three years later we studied first Shudhur al-Dhahab followed by
SharH ibn Aqiil then AwaDaH al-Masaalik. In the interim years we studied
TanqiiH al-Azhariyya and QaTr al-Nada wa ball al-Sada of Ibn Hishaam. We
completed AwaDaH al-Masaalik in the fifth and last year of the secondary
level.

	In the Faculty of Arabic Language, students in the linguistic
department used al-Kafiyah and Mughni al-Labiib but I can not elaborate
since I was transferred to the history department in the same college. I am
under the impression that al-Mughni is used more as a reference book than a
textbook due to the nature of its arrangement and presentation of material.

	In my currently taught course of Classical Arabic Grammar I use
AL-TuHfa al-Saniyya as the basic text supported by Ibn Aqiil, AwaDah
Al-Masaalik and al-Shaafiya al-Kafiya in addition to Mughni al-Labiib as
references for those who like to do further research on a particular
Grammatical point.

	Hope you find this helpful.

	Salaam

Muhammad S. Eissa, Ph. D.
Department of Near Eastern Studies,
University of Michigan,
2097 Frieze Building,
Ann Arbor,  MI 48109

Ph. (734) 647-0099

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Date:  13 Feb 2002
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject: Traditional Grammar Book Order

Of the following three,

   'awDaH al-masaalik ila 'alfiyat ibn-maalik
   shuDhuur al-Dhahab
   sharh ibn-aquiil

I think  shuDhuur al-Dhahab, might be the easiest.

I am not familiar with al-Kafiah al-Shafiahi.

mughni al-Labiib is different from the others, and
would probably be used after.

However, I don't know whether this is the 'traditional' order.

Waheed

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