Full Description
From Sībawayhi to ʾAḥmad Ḥasan al-Zayyāt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition, a volume edited by Beata Sheyhatovitch and Almog Kasher, brings together nine articles written by leading scholars of the Arabic linguistic tradition. These articles trace the development of the tradition, from Sībawayhi to modern Arabic language academies. The authors shed light on lesser-known aspects of this tradition, such as little-investigated grammatical structures, and problematic spots of the ʿamal theory and the grammatical terminology. They explore the discipline's relations with stylistics and logic, the Arab grammarians' influence on Jewish Bible exegesis, and modern applications of medieval Arabic grammatical theory. This volume showcases the richness of the medieval Arabic linguistic literature and the diversity of ideas found within it.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Beata Sheyhatovitch and Almog Kasher
In and out of the Metalanguage: Some Reconsiderations of the Technical Vocabulary of Arabic Grammar
Michael G. Carter
Views Concerning the ʿāmil of the Predicate of the Nominal Sentence Incorrectly Ascribed to Sībawayhi
Aryeh Levin
Reading Poetry with Sībawayhi: Ittisāʿ/saʿat al-kalām and Metaphorical Thinking in the Kitāb
Avigail Noy
Aspects of Syntactic Effect (ʿamal) in Arabic Grammatical Tradition: The Term šuġl in Sībawayhi's al-Kitāb and Beyond
Almog Kasher
Less Familiar Types of ʾan according to Arabic Grammarians
Arik Sadan
A Sparkle in the Debate about the Word ʾāmīn Used in Supplication and Its Rules in Arabic, by ʾAbū Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḫaššāb (d. 567/1172), an Annotated Translation
Jean N. Druel
The Theory of Definition in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī
Beata Sheyhatovitch
Comparison to Arabic as an Exegetical Method in Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi's Commentary on the Bible
Avi Tal
The Arabic Language Academy in Cairo vis-à-vis a New Grammatical Phrase: al-ism al-ṯulāṯī (The Case of sāfara Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥasan)
Shlomit Shraybom-Shivtiel
Index of Qurʾānic Quotations
Index of Names
Index of Terms
