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Ihab Salama is an Egyptian researcher and scholar of Arabic linguistics and grammar known for his academic studies on classical grammatical theory and poetic commentaries.
Academic Background and Research
His full name is Ihab Abd al-Hamid Abd al-Sadiq Salama. He pursued his graduate studies in Arabic grammar and morphology at Cairo University's Faculty of Dar al-Ulum in the Department of Grammar, Morphology, and Prosody, where he prepared his master's thesis under the supervision of Muhammad Jamal Saqr. His study, titled Sharha Abi al-Ala wa al-Khatib al-Tabrizi ala Diwan Abi Tammam, examined the grammatical and morphological methodology used by Abu al-Ala al-Maarri and al-Khatib al-Tabrizi in their commentaries on the poetry of Abu Tammam, employing a descriptive, statistical, and analytical approach.
He later completed his doctoral degree at Ain Shams University in the Department of Arabic Language at the Faculty of Women for Arts, Science, and Education. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Amira Ahmad Yusuf and Hasana al-Zahhar, was titled Qarinat al-Siyaq wa-Dawruha fi al-Taqid al-Nahwi wa-al-Tawjih al-Irabi fi Kitab Sibawayh, which investigated the function of contextual evidence in the formulation of grammatical rules and syntactic parsing within the seminal grammatical treatise al-Kitab by Sibawayh.
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List of Works
Sharha Abi al-Ala wa al-Khatib al-Tabrizi ala Diwan Abi Tammam: Dirasa Nahwiya Sarfiya is an academic study in Arabic linguistics, originally submitted as a master's thesis at the Faculty of Dar al-Ulum, Cairo University. The work investigates the grammatical, morphological, and methodological approaches employed by Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri and al-Khatib al-Tabrizi in their commentaries on the poetic collection (diwan) of Abu Tammam.
Qarinat al-Siyaq wa-Dawruha fi al-Taqid al-Nahwi wa-al-Tawjih al-Irabi fi Kitab Sibawayh is a doctoral dissertation in Arabic linguistics. The study examines how contextual evidence (qarinat al-siyaq) influenced the pioneer grammarian Sibawayh in formulating grammatical rules (al-taqid al-nahwi) and directing syntactic parsing (al-tawjih al-i'rabi) within his foundational work, al-Kitab.