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Sibawayhi's Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought
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.
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Sibawayhi's Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought
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.
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Sibawayhi's Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought

Sibawayhi's Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought

by M. G. Carter
Sibawayhi's Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought

Sibawayhi's Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought

by M. G. Carter

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781937040581
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Publication date: 11/28/2016
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface vii

Preface ix

Preface to This Edition xi

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

Bibliography 247

Index of Arabic Terms and Proper Names 261

Index of Qur'anic Citations 272

Index of Poetic Citations 273

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