Abd al-Razzaq bin Faraj al-Saidi
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Abd al-Razzaq bin Faraj al-Saidi is a Saudi scholar of Arabic linguistics and an academic at the Islamic University of Madinah, specializing in lexicography, morphology, and the early history of Arabic grammatical studies .
Academic Career
Al-Saidi served as an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics within the College of Arabic Language at the Islamic University of Madinah . His research focuses on classical Arabic philology, the structural development of Arabic dictionaries, and the intellectual history of language studies in early Islamic centers .
Linguistic and Lexicographical Studies
Al-Saidi has addressed theoretical and historical questions in Arabic philology. In his comprehensive study Tadakhul al-Usul al-Lughawiyya wa-Atharuhu fi Bina al-Mu'jam ("The Overlap of Linguistic Roots and Its Impact on Lexicon Construction"), published in two volumes by the Deanship of Scientific Research at the Islamic University of Madinah, he examined root overlap (tadakhul al-usul) and its morphological and semantic ramifications for classical dictionary compilation .
His historical investigation Usul Ilm al-Arabiyya fi al-Madina ("The Origins of the Science of Arabic in Medina"), completed in 1416 AH, challenged prevailing biographical assertions that early linguistic inquiry was confined solely to Basra and Kufa by tracing the foundational contributions of early Medinan scholars across the first two Islamic centuries . In textual scholarship, he reconstructed the lost lexical treatise on phonetic consonant alternation by the early philologist Abu Turab al-Lughawi in Abu Turab al-Lughawi wa-Kitabuhu al-I'tiqab ("Abu Turab the Lexicographer and His Book al-I'tiqab"), drawing upon more than three hundred quotations preserved in Abu Mansur al-Azhari's Tahdhib al-Lugha .
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Usul Ilm al-Arabiya fi al-Madina (The Origins of the Science of Arabic in Medina) is a research monograph that examines the emergence of Arabic linguistic and grammatical scholarship in Medina during the first two Islamic centuries. It investigates the early beginnings of linguistic study in the city, recovers its historical figures, and traces how grammatical inquiries developed there before spreading to other centers.
Abu Turab al-Lughawi wa Kitabuhu al-Itiqab (Abu Turab the Lexicographer and His Book al-I'tiqab) is a specialized linguistic study and textual reconstruction dedicated to recovering the lost treatise on lexical consonant alternation (ibdal / al-i'tiqab) by the classical philologist Abu Turab al-Lughawi.
Tadakhul al-Usul al-Lughawiya wa Atharuhu fi Bina al-Mujam (The Overlap of Linguistic Roots and Its Impact on Lexicon Construction) is a specialized study in Arabic morphology and lexicography. It addresses root overlap (tadakhul al-usul), the phenomenon where an Arabic lexical item can be attributed to multiple roots due to phonetic, morphological, or semantic factors, focusing particularly on dictionaries of the rhyme school.
Mawt al-Alfaz fi al-Arabiyya (The Death of Words in Arabic) is a linguistic study that examines lexical obsolescence and obsolete vocabulary (al-mumat) in Classical Arabic, investigating terms that fell out of usage during the era of linguistic protestation.