Sibawayhi's Principles (eBook)

Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought

Michael G. Carter (Autor)

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2016
296 Seiten
Lockwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-937040-59-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Michael G. Carter's Sibawyhi's Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought is a corrected version, with considerable Addenda, of his 1968 Oxford doctoral thesis, "e;Sibawayhi's Principles of Grammatical Analysis."e; It systematically argues that the science of Arabic grammar owes its origins to a special application of a set of methods and criteria developed independently to form the Islamic legal system, not to Greek or other foreign influence. These methods and criteria were then adapted to create a grammatical system brought to perfection by Sibawayhi in the late second/eighth century. It describes the intimate contacts between early jurists and scholars of language out of which the new science of grammar evolved, 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 Kitab.

Autor

Michael G. Carter, BA, MA, DPhil (Oxford), PhD honoris (Lund), currently Honorary Professor at the Center for Medieval Studies at University of Sydney, has taught at Duke University, New York University and at the University of Oslo. His books include Arab Linguistics: An Introductory Classical Text with Translation and Notes (1981), Sibawyhi (2004), and (co-authored with E. Badawi and A. Gully, revised by Maher Awad) Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar (2016).

Rezensionen

"In general, the book is an in-depth study of the early history of Arabic grammar. I sincerely recommend it to graduate students and researchers in Arabic linguistics and related fields. Historians of general linguistics will also undoubtedly find it informative and helpful." --Mohamed Mohamed Yunis Ali, WORAL, Qatar Foundation, Doha

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies
• Verlagsort: Atlanta
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Arabic Grammar • Historical Linguistics • Language and Linguistics • Middle Eastern Studies • Semitic Languages/Arabic
• ISBN-10: 1-937040-59-3 / 1937040593
• ISBN-13: 978-1-937040-59-8 / 9781937040598