From Sībawayhi to ʾaḥmad Ḥasan Al-Zayyāt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition

From Sībawayhi to ʾAḥmad Ḥasan al-Zayyāt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition is a volume edited by Beata Sheyhatovitch and Almog Kasher. It contains nine articles that trace the development of the Arabic linguistic tradition over the centuries, exploring its lesser-known aspects.

About the author

Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies of that university. She is the author of The Distinctive Terminology in Sarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī (Brill, 2018) and of several research articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition.

Almog Kasher, Ph.D. (2007), Bar-Ilan University, is Lecturer at the Department of Arabic of that university. His main field of study is the medieval Arabic grammatical tradition, with an emphasis on its early history, commentaries on Sībawayhi, and pedagogical grammars.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2020
• EAN: 9789004422520
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42252-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics