Abd al-Aal Salim Makram
- Died
- 1429 AH
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Abd al-Aal Salim Makram (d. 1429 AH / 2008 CE) was an Arabic linguist and scholar of Quranic readings (qira'at) and grammar who taught at Kuwait University .
Academic Career and Scholarly Contributions
Makram served as an academic in the Faculty of Arts at Kuwait University . His research centered on Arabic grammar, Quranic philology, and the critical edition of classical Arabic linguistic heritage. Together with Ahmad Mukhtar Umar, he co-authored Mu'jam al-Qira'at al-Qur'aniyya ("Dictionary of Quranic Readings"), published by Kuwait University, which compiled and analyzed textual variants across Quranic recitation traditions .
Makram also collaborated with the Egyptian philologist Abd al-Salam Harun on the editing and annotation of al-Suyuti's grammatical compendium Ham' al-Hawami' . He later published a detailed study documenting Harun's contributions to Arabic scholarship in the Journal of the Social Sciences (al-Majalla al-Arabiyya lil-Ulum al-Insaniyya) . In the field of Quranic variant readings, he prepared the critical edition of Ibn Khalawayh's foundational grammatical work on recitation variants, al-Hujja fi al-Qira'at al-Sab' ("The Argument for the Seven Readings") .
Death
Makram died in 1429 AH (2008 CE).
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List of Works
al-Mushtarak al-Lafzi fi al-Haql al-Qurani (Verbal Homonymy in the Quranic Field) is a specialized study in Arabic linguistics and Quranic semantics. It examines the phenomenon of lexical homonymy and polysemy (al-mushtarak al-lafzi) and explores how multi-layered meanings of Arabic vocabulary manifest within the Quranic text, bridging classical linguistic debates with Quranic semantic analysis.