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| 09/24/05 at 02:38:35 |
| [slm] Arab Linguistics: An introductory classical text with translation and notes edited by M.G. Carter http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9027245061/qid=1127478900/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-9229845-9219041?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 This book is a translation of al-Sirbini's sharh of the Ajrumiyyah called Nur al-Sajiyyah fee hall alfaadh al-Ajrmumiyyah ('The Ajrumiyyah's exposition by the Light of Intuition'), along with some of Carter's own explanatory notes. From the Introduction: [Quote] If the Ajrumiyyah is the quintessence of Arabic grammar, then as-Sirbini's commentary on it is surely the essence: it is modest yet comprehensive, not over-long, but detailed enough for serious study, and as orthodox and well-meaning as as-Sirbini himself. His Nur al-Sajiyya fi hall alfaz al-Ajrumiyyah is the distillation of some nine centuries of linguistic speculation; what is left is both wholly unoriginal and entirely typical of a discipline which had already reached its peak more than two hundred years before as-Sirbini's death in 1570. It is, therefore, an ideal introduction to the cast technical literature devoted to the preservation and propagation of one of the world's few divine languages, the Classical Arabic in which the Qur'an was revealed and through which the Islamic faith finds expression. [/quote] |
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