Sibawayhi's Principles

Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought

Michael C. Carter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2017
Lockwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-937040-58-1 (ISBN)

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Sibawayhi, a non-Arab, was the first to write on Arabic grammar and the first to explain Arabic grammar from a non-Arab perspective. Both Sibawayhi and his teacher al-Farahidi made the earliest and most significant formal recording of the Arabic language.

This book argues that the science of Arabic grammar owes its origins to a set of methods developed independently to form the Islamic legal system, not to Greek or other foreign influence. These methods and criteria were adapted to create a grammatical system brought to perfection by Sibawayhi in the late second/eighth century. It describes the evolution of the new science of grammar, and makes detailed comparisons between the technical terms of law and grammar to show how the vocabulary of the law was applied to the speech of the Arabs. It also sheds light on Sibawayhi's method in producing his magisterial Kitb.

This is a corrected version, with considerable Addenda, of Michael G. Carter’s 1968 Oxford doctoral thesis, Sibawayhi's Principles of Grammatical Analysis.

Michael C. Carter is Honorary Professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney. He has held positions at Duke University, New York University, and Oslo University. His publications include Arab Linguistics: An Introductory Classical Text with Translation and Notes (Benjamins, 1981); Sibawayhi (OUP/Tauris, 2004), and Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar, with Elsaid Badawi and Adrian Gully (Routledge, 2003, rev. ed. 2015).

Series Editors' Preface

Preface

Preface to This Edition

The Background of the Kitab

The State of Kitab Criticism

Grammar and Law

‘Grammar’ and ‘nahw’

The Principles and Criteria of the Kitab

Twenty Dirhams

In Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Arabic Terms and Proper Names

Index of Qur'anic Citations

Index of Poetic Citations

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies
Verlagsort	Atlanta
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-937040-58-5 / 1937040585
ISBN-13	978-1-937040-58-1 / 9781937040581
Zustand	Neuware