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was the first formal and analytical Arabic grammar written by a non-native speaker of Arabic, i.e. as a foreign language. His application of logic to the structural mechanics of language was wholly innovative for its time. Both
Sibawayh and his teacher al-Farahidi are historically the earliest and
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A student of
Sibawayh's, al-Akhfash al-Asghar (Akhfash the Younger), is said to have challenged al-Kisa'i after his teacher's death asking him 100 questions on grammar, proving al-Kisa'i's answers wrong each time. When the student revealed who he was and what had happened, al-Kisa'i approached the
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Sibawayh's renowned scholarship, his status as a non-native speaker of the language is a central feature in the many anecdotes included in the biographies. The accounts throw useful light on early contemporary debates which influenced the formulation of the fundamental principles of Arabic
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Persians have been prominent as well in the fields of Arabic grammar, philology, and lexicography. The greatest name in Arabic grammar belongs to the
Persian Sībawayh (Sībūya) Bayżāwī (fl. 180/796), whose work, al-Ketāb (The book), remains to the present day the most authoritative exposition of
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Some of these cultural figures were of
Iranian descent, including the early paragon of piety Ḥasan al-Baṣrī; Sebawayh, one of the founders of the study of Arabic grammar; the famed poets Baššār b. Bord and Abū Nowās; the Muʿtazilite theologian ʿAmr b. ʿObayd; the early Arabic prose stylist Ebn
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text. Al-Nadim describes the voluminous work, reputedly the collaboration of forty-two grammarians, as "unequaled before his time and unrivaled afterwards". Sibawayh was the first to produce a comprehensive encyclopedic Arabic grammar, in which he sets down the principles rules of grammar, the
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English. Due to its great unwieldiness and complexity the later grammarians produced concise grammars in a simple descriptive format suitable for general
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and prohibited deviations. He dispenses with the letter-groups classification of al-Farahidi's dictionary. He introduces a discussion on the nature of morality of speech; that speech as a form of human behavior is governed by ethics, right and wrong, correct and incorrect.
276:, attribute Sibawayh with contributions to the science of the Arabic language and linguistics that were unsurpassed by those of earlier and later times. He has been called the greatest of all Arabic linguists and one of the greatest linguists of all time in any language.
638:, who circulated Sibawayh's work, and developed the science of grammar, writing many books of their own and commentaries, such as al-Jarmi's "(Commentary on) The Strange in Sibawayh". Of the next generation of grammarians,
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was the proper usage and so
Sibawayh's was judged incorrect. After this, he left the court, and was said to have returned in indignation to Shiraz where he died soon, apparently either from upset or illness.
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He is Amr ibn Uthman, and he was mainly a grammarian. He arrived in
Baghdad, fell out with the local grammarians, was humiliated, went back to some town in Persia, and died there while still a young man.
709:. In an anecdote about Ibn al-Sarraj being reprimanded for an error, he is said to have replied "you have trained me, but I've been neglecting what I studied while reading this book (meaning Sibawayh's
421:), literally "and-thus he she", using "he" for the scorpion (a masculine noun in Arabic) and "she" for "stinging, bite" (a feminine noun), arguing that Arabic does not need or use any verb-form like
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Persian origin, he attached himself in the middle of the second/eighth century to a number of early authorities on the Arabic language in Basra, notably al-Khalil ibn Ahmad and Yunus ibn Habib.
454:. The grammatical constructions of the debate may be compared to a similar point in the grammar of modern English: "it is she" vs. "it is her", which is still a point of some disagreement today.
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with
Sibawayh," nor did he expound it as was the tradition. Sibawayh's associate and pupil, Al-Akhfash al-Akbar, or al-Akhfash al-Mujashi'i, a learned grammarian of Basra of the
713:), because I've been diverted by logic and music, and now I'm going back to ", after which he became the leading grammarian after al-Zajjaj, and wrote many books of scholarship.
527:); these pronunciation variants pose particular issues for religious readings of Qur'anic scripture where correct pronunciation, or reading, of God's Word is sacrosanct.
304:, and finally back to the village of al-Baida near Shiraz where he died between 177/793 and 180/796, while another says he died in Basra in 161/777. His Persian nickname
574:", and of many philological works on lexicography, diacritics, poetic meter (ʻarūḍ), cryptology, etc. Sibawayh's book came from flourishing literary, philological and
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contains all significant printed editions of Chapters 1–7, 285–302, and 565-571 of the Kitāb, together with published translations into French and German.
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Introduction to Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on Al-Khalīl Ibn Ahmad, pg. 3. Ed. Karin C. Ryding. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998.
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may indicate three tenses (past, present, future) but take just two forms, defined as "past" (past tense) and "resembling" (present and future tenses).
509:(Quranic exegesis); The poetic language of the Qur'an presents interpretative challenges even to the native Arabic speaker. In Arabic, the final voiced
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most significant figures in respect to the formal recording of the Arabic language. Much of the impetus for this work came from the desire of non-Arab
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Al-Nadim claims to have seen notes about grammar and language in Sibawayh's handwriting in the library of a book collector, Muhammad ibn al-Husayn (
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always in the third person, in phrases such as "I asked him", or "he said". Sibawayh transmits quotes, mainly via Ibn Habib and al-Farahidi, of
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was referred to as the Sibawayh of the modern era due to the fact that, although he was of Arab descent, Arabic was not his mother tongue.
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when he was thirty-two years old and died in Persia when he was over forty. He was a student of the two eminent grammarians
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grammatical categories with countless examples taken from Arabic sayings, verse and poetry, as transmitted by
404:"I have always thought that the scorpion was more painful in stinging than the hornet, and sure enough it is."
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readership and educational purposes. Al-Kitāb categorizes grammar under subheadings, from
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a pupil of al-Zajjaj, wrote "Exposition and Interpretation of the Arguments of Sibawayh".
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kuntu ʾaẓunnu ʾanna l-ʿaqraba ʾašaddu lasʿatan min az-zunbūri, fa-ʾiḏā huwa ʾiyyā-hā.
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952:, vol. Introduction (3rd ed.), Cairo: Maktabat al-Khānjī, pp. 7–12
1438:, p. 64 in first ed. (1997) or 72 in second ed. (2014), citing Ibn al-'Anbārī's
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689:(incomplete). Al-Mubarrad's pupil and tutor to the children of the Caliph
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Later scholars of Arabic grammar came to be compared to Sibawayh. The name
882:), in the city of al-Hadithah - he may have been referring to a city near
1519:, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. Accessed 1 January 2013.
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Monique Bernards, "Pioneers of Arabic linguistic studies." Taken from
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who had "happened" to be waiting near the door. Each testified that
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Qutaybah, Abu Muh. 'Abd Allah (1960), Wustenfeld, Ferdinand (ed.),
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Qutaybah, Abu Muh. 'Abd Allah (1850), Wustenfeld, Ferdinand (ed.),
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781:-era poets, and even the less prestigious and more innovative
578:(Quranic exegetical) tradition that centred in the schools of
252:, the earliest extant source, in his biographical entry under
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Al-Kitāb Kitāb Sībawayh Abī Bishr ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān ibn Qanbar
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1293:. Ann Arbor, Michigan: American Research Press. p. 83.
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as the most comprehensive and oldest extant Arabic grammar.
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with a group of student and grammarian associates including
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Thorough Searching (or Meaning) of "the Book" of Sibawayh
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57 times, whom he never met. Sibawayh quotes his teacher
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Sībawaihis Buch über die Grammatik übersetzt und erklärt
1347:, pg. 498. Volume 3 of Oriental translation fund. Trns.
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Kitab al-Ma'arif (Ibn Coteiba's Handbuch de Geschichte)
725:, comprising a number of sections but left unfinished.
215:أَبُو بِشْر عَمْرو بْن عُثْمَان بْن قَنْبَر ٱلْبَصْرِيّ
1893:.London and New York: Keegan Paul International 1993.
1029:. Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation. pp. 851–855.
1003:. Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation. pp. 237–243.
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1483:Toufic Fahd, "Botany and agriculture." Taken from
965:Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. I, A-B, pg. 126. Eds.
1927:(1984) . "§6 (#22)". In Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (ed.).
985:. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1979. Print edition.
723:The Triumph of Sibawayh over All the Grammarians
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997:"Arabic Language iv. Arabic literature in Iran"
642:developed the work of his masters and wrote an
222:’Abū Bishr ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Qanbar al-Baṣrī
1933:(in Arabic). Cairo: Al-Khanjī. pp. 66–72.
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1112:Medieval Islamic Civilization, An Encyclopedia
812:, and equated its value to grammar as that of
373:and the leading figure in the rival school of
2033:8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
1925:Zubaydī (al-), Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan
1827:, William, London: W.H. Allen, pp. 396–9
1289:Smarandache, Florentin; Osman, Salah (2007).
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296:. Reports vary, some saying he went first to
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1789:Brustad, Kristen, 'The Iconic Síbawayh', in
685:. Among Al-Mabriman's books of grammar was
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210:Abu Bishr Amr ibn Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Basri
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1365:. University of Chicago Press. p. 51.
1361:Touati, Houari; Cochrane, Lydia G. (2010).
336:, the latter of whom he was most indebted.
1259:, Ferdinand; Gottingen, Dieterich (eds.),
853:Versteegh gives Sibawayh's birth-place as
800:Many linguists and scholars highly esteem
717:an associate and pupil of al-Mubarrad and
238:. His famous unnamed work, referred to as
234:and author of the earliest book on Arabic
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1529:Abu Turab al-Zahiri...Sibawayh of the Era
1389:, p. 64 in first ed., p. 72 in second ed.
626:into manuscript form. Al-Akhfash studied
27:Persian grammarian from Basra (c.760–796)
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687:An Explanation of "the Book" of Sibawayh
433:are never the main part of a predicate.
1444:, pp. 292-5 in Weil's edition of 1913.
1320:, pg. 252. Ed. Sylvain Auroux. Berlin:
1114:. Vol. 1. Routledge. p. 741.
1001:Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. II, Fasc. 3
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1274:'Abd al-Salam Muh. Harun, ed. (1958),
284:Born circa 143/760, Sibawayh was from
1906:Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
1460:. Leiden: Brill Archive. p. 245.
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699:Commentary on the Verses of Sibawayh
411:Sibawayh proposed finishing it with
2088:Scholars from the Abbasid Caliphate
2028:8th-century Arabic-language writers
1406:. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 13.
1363:Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages
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1458:A History of Muslim Historiography
622:ibn Darim, transcribed Sibawayh's
499:for correct interpretation of the
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1234:. London: Routledge. p. 29.
1143:John Benjamins Publishing Company
857:in Western Iran, however neither
1291:Neutrosophy in Arabic Philosophy
967:Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
381:("The Question of the Hornet").
1487:, pg. 814. Ed. Roshdi Rasheed.
1276:Kitab al-Ishtiqaq (New edition)
1110:Meri, Josef W. (January 2006).
1052:Landmarks in Linguistic Thought
1048:The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
566:Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
334:Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
54:Entrance to Sibawayh's tomb in
2063:Medieval grammarians of Arabic
2008:Buch über die Grammatik (1895)
2003:Buch über die Grammatik (1895)
1980:(1988, 5 vols., index, cover.)
1865:ʻAbd al-Salām Hārūn, M. (ed.)
1470:al-Qāsim Ibn-ʻAlī al- Ḥarīrī,
754:, and includes an appendix on
534:, a combination of "nift", or
264:The tenth-century biographers
1:
1836:Anthologie grammaticale arabe
1823:, vol. 2, translated by
1351:. Williams and Norgate, 1867.
517:where the name terminates as
436:Al-Kisa'i argued instead for
429:, and that object forms like
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1848:. 2 vols. Paris 1881–1889. .
1820:Ibn Khallikan's Biographical
1096:Ibn Khallikan's Biographical
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1402:Carter, Michael G. (2004).
450:("her") with the particle '
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2093:8th-century Iranian people
1869:. 5 vols. Cairo 1966–1977.
1684:, Cairo: 'Tharwat 'Ukashah
1535:, Monday, 27 October 2003.
486:Sibawayh's tomb in Shiraz.
349:The Question of the Hornet
272:, and in the 13th-century
1316:, "Sibawayh." Taken from
379:al-Mas’alah al-Zunbūrīyah
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2038:8th-century philologists
1890:Sibawayh the Phonologist
1341:Francis Joseph Steingass
1230:Versteegh, Kees (1997).
1054:series, vol. 3. London:
644:Introduction to Sibawayh
1987:in scanned format from
1912:- No longer available;
1761:In the Shadow or Arabic
971:Évariste Lévi-Provençal
916:, p. 66, §6 (#22).
503:and the development of
369:, one of the canonical
365:school of grammar, and
2078:Philologists of Arabic
1810:(London: Tauris, 2004)
1781:, Bayard, ed. (1970),
1517:Encyclopaedia of Islam
1215:, Bayard, ed. (1970).
1093:Ibn Khallikan (1868).
830:Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali
806:Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati
731:Commentary on Sibawayh
707:Commentary on Sibawayh
703:Abu Bakr ibn al-Sarraj
652:Refutation of Sibawayh
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208:), whose full name is
2043:8th-century linguists
1860:Sībawaihi’s Lautlehre
1855:. Berlin 1895–1900. .
1846:Le livre de Sibawaihi
1050:, pg. 4. Part of the
695:Ibn as-Sarī az-Zajjāj
636:Abu 'Uthman al-Mazini
600:Abu ʻAmr ibn al-ʻAlāʼ
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438:fa-'iḏā huwa 'iyyā-hā
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2053:Iranian orientalists
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610:Grammarians of Basra
2073:People from Hamadan
2058:Linguists from Iran
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1735:The Arabic Language
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1387:The Arabic Language
1263:, pp. 155, 237
1168:The Arabic Language
1074:Michael G. Carter,
995:Danner, V. (1986).
785:poets of his time.
771:pre-Islamic Arabian
540:Abu Turab al-Zahiri
318:al-Akhfash al-Akbar
270:Abu Bakr al-Zubaydi
232:grammarian of Basra
198:[siːbuːˈje]
120:Medieval philosophy
80:, Abbasid Caliphate
2068:Medieval linguists
1832:de Sacy, Silvestre
1825:MacGuckin de Slane
1804:Carter, Michael G.
1278:, Cairo: Al-Khanji
914:Zubaydī (al-) 1984
632:Abu 'Umar al-Jarmi
488:
130:Islamic philosophy
1993:Arabic Wikisource
1946:Sibawayhi Project
1511:Bencheikh, Omar.
1372:978-0-226-80877-2
1322:Walter de Gruyter
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886:or a town on the
606:just five times.
586:and later at the
413:fa-'iḏā huwa hiya
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