Dr. Mahmoud Fahmi Hijazi
- Died
- 1441 AH
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Mahmoud Fahmi Hijazi (d. 1441 AH / 2019–2020 CE) was an Egyptian linguist and professor at Cairo University, specializing in Arabic philology and comparative Semitic linguistics .
Academic Career and Scholarship
Hijazi completed his doctoral dissertation in Munich in 1965, which was published in 1971 under the title Abou Sa'id As-Sirafi der Sibawaihi-Kommentator als Grammatiker, examining the grammatical thought of Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi . Following his studies in Germany, he joined the faculty of Cairo University, where he supervised postgraduate research in Arabic grammar and philology .
In his research, Hijazi synthesized classical Arabic linguistic heritage with nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern comparative linguistics and Semitic grammar, a method articulated in his study Ilm al-Lugha al-Arabiya (Arabic Linguistics) . Alongside his original linguistic writing, he translated German orientalist scholarship into Arabic, collaborating with Fahmi Abu al-Fadl on the Arabic translation of Fuat Sezgin's Tarikh al-Turath al-Arabi (Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums) .
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List of Works
Ilm al-Lugha al-Arabiya (Arabic Linguistics), subtitled Madkhal Ta'rikhi Muqaran fi Daw' al-Turath wa-l-Lughat al-Samiyya (A Historical and Comparative Introduction in Light of Heritage and Semitic Languages), is a study that introduces the general foundations of historical and comparative research in the Arabic language. It synthesizes the theoretical framework and methodologies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern linguistics with the classical Arabic linguistic heritage and comparative Semitic grammar.