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Professor Baalbaki deals here with the Arabic grammatical tradition
and the analytical methods of the medieval Arab grammarians. The
essays included open new perspectives on the most authoritative
work on Arabic grammar, Sibawayhi's tome or Kitab, on the relation
between grammatical study and other areas of linguistic enquiry
such as Qur'anic readings and stylistics, and on the techniques
which the grammarians employed to explain and rationalize usage and
to incorporate within their system the vast body of dialectal
material which the corpus comprises. The author has sought to
highlight the central position which Arabic grammar enjoys within
the wider Arab culture, and in so doing has examined several
aspects of a legacy which has been revered over a millennium and
which forms to this very day the backbone of the teaching of
grammar in the Arab 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.
Professor Baalbaki deals here with the Arabic grammatical tradition
and the analytical methods of the medieval Arab grammarians. The
essays included open new perspectives on the most authoritative
work on Arabic grammar, Sibawayhi's tome or Kitab, on the relation
between grammatical study and other areas of linguistic enquiry
such as Qur'anic readings and stylistics, and on the techniques
which the grammarians employed to explain and rationalize usage and
to incorporate within their system the vast body of dialectal
material which the corpus comprises. The author has sought to
highlight the central position which Arabic grammar enjoys within
the wider Arab culture, and in so doing has examined several
aspects of a legacy which has been revered over a millennium and
which forms to this very day the backbone of the teaching of
grammar in the Arab world.
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