Hamdi Kokab
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Hamdi Kokab is an Egyptian educator, writer, and grammarian from Sohag, known for his specialized grammatical treatise al-Af'al al-Nasikha.
Biography and Teaching Career
Born Hamdi Farraj Muhammad Farraj in Shatturah in the Sohag Governorate of Egypt, he became widely known by the pen name Hamdi Kokab. He worked as an Arabic language teacher at the Shatturah School Complex, having also taught the subject at several other schools, including Shajarat al-Durr, al-Nasr, Zarabi Barkhil, and Ali Faraj.
Literary and Scholarly Activity
Kokab published articles in numerous cultural and Islamic periodicals across the Arab world, including al-Arabi and al-Wa'y al-Islami in Kuwait, al-Majalla al-Arabiyya in Saudi Arabia, Manar al-Islam in the United Arab Emirates, and Minbar al-Islam in Egypt. Several of his poems were broadcast on Egypt's Cultural Program radio station. His notable critical essays include studies on the poetic craft of Ibn al-Farid and Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, as well as an article examining classical Arabic verse titled al-Bayt al-Yatim bayna Fazara wa-Hamdan.
His authored publications include the grammatical study al-Af'al al-Nasikha (The Abrogating Verbs) and the short-story collection A'mal al-Shayatin (The Deeds of Devils). In theological analysis, he composed Fasad 'Aqa'id al-Qadiyaniyya (The Corruption of Qadiani Doctrines), an analytical critique of the Ahmadiyya movement. He also developed al-Aya al-Kubra (The Greatest Sign), a digital initiative focused on the vocabulary of the Quran submitted to the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation.
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al-Af'al al-Nasikha (The Abrogating Verbs) is a specialized treatise on Arabic grammar that focuses exclusively on the grammatical category of verbs that govern the nominal sentence by entering upon the subject (mubtada') and predicate (khabar), altering their grammatical cases.