Al-fara'id al-Wafiyya bi-Dhikr Maalam tahwihi al-Alfiyya of Al-Mansuri: a critical edition with a comparative study between it and the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik
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1982Author
Al-Harithi, Mesfer R. A.
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The main part of this thesis consists of an
edition of a previously unstudied grammatical alfiyya,
al-Fara'id al-Wafiyya bi-Dhikr mä lam Tahwihi
al-Alfiyya of the eighteenth-century scholar
al-Mansüri, who was probably of Egyptian origin but
rose to become the Shaykh of the Dar al-Qurra' in
Istanbul. The edition is supplied with full critical
annotations based on the two surviving manuscripts, one
in Sühäj and the other in Istanbul, and is provided
with extensive notes on grammarians, poets, tribes etc.
mentioned by al-Mansüri and with full indices after the
edition.
The edition is prefaced by a critical introduction
which discusses the development of grammatical studies
among the Arabs, and. particularly the reasons for the
appearance of the grammatical alfiyya and its
development. Since al-Mansüri's work is an attempt to
provide a more compete coverage of Arabic grammar than
Ibn Mälik, a comparative study of the two works is
undertaken, with an attempt to assess the achievements
and shortcomings of al-Mansüri in the task which he has
set himself. This is prefaced by a brief account of the
life and scholarly career of Ibn Mälik, together with
an account of the few facts which are known about
al-Mansüri.