Sībawayhi's principles : Arabic grammar and law in early Islamic thought / Michael G. Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, M. G., author.

Series:

Resources in Arabic and Islamic studies ; no. 5.

Resources in Arabic and Islamic studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sībawayh, ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān, active 8th century.

Arabic language--Grammar--History--To 1500.

Arabic language.

Sībawayh, ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān, active 8th century--Criticism and interpretation.

Sībawayh, ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān.

Criticism and interpretation.

Arabic language--Grammar.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 273 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Georgia : Lockwood Press, 2016.

Summary:

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, "Sibawayhi's Principles of Grammatical Analysis." 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Background of the Kitab 1

Chapter 2 The State of Kitab Criticism 35

Chapter 3 Grammar and Law 69

Chapter 4 "Grammar" and "nahw" 111

Chapter 5 The Principles and Criteria of the Kitab 147

Chapter 6 Twenty Dirhams 191

Chapter 7 In Conclusion 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781937040581

1937040585

OCLC:

936219663

Publisher Number:

99972018065