Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq Udayma
- Died
- 1404 AH
- Born in
- Tanta
Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq Udayma (1328–1404 AH / 1910–1984 CE) was an Egyptian linguist, philologist, and professor at Al-Azhar University, best known for his comprehensive grammatical and morphological study of the Quran, Dirasat li-Uslub al-Quran al-Karim (Studies on the Style of the Noble Quran) .
Life and career
Udayma was born in the Tanta district of the Gharbia Governorate in Egypt . He pursued his higher education at Al-Azhar University, obtaining a degree (ijaza) in Arabic language sciences from the Faculty of Arabic Language . He then entered postgraduate studies, graduating in 1943 CE with a thesis entitled Abu al-Abbas al-Mubarrad wa-Atharuhu fi Ulum al-Arabiyya (Abu al-Abbas al-Mubarrad and His Impact on Arabic Language Sciences) .
Following his graduation, Udayma was appointed as an instructor at the Faculty of Arabic Language in Cairo . In 1946 CE, he was sent to Mecca as part of the first academic mission sent by Al-Azhar to Saudi Arabia . He later served as a professor of Arabic at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh .
Scholarly contribution and standing
Udayma focused his research on Quranic syntax, morphology, and classical Arabic philology, alongside the critical editing of heritage texts . His principal achievement was Dirasat li-Uslub al-Quran al-Karim, an eleven-volume grammatical and morphological dictionary of the Quran that took approximately thirty-five years to complete and surveyed tens of thousands of verses and variant readings . The literary scholar Mahmud Muhammad Shakir contributed a foreword to the work . In classical philology, Udayma produced an edition of Al-Mubarrad's foundational grammatical work al-Muqtadab . He also authored al-Mughni fi Tasrif al-Afal (The Enricher in Verbal Morphology), a specialized treatise on verbal derivations and conjugation patterns .
In 1403 AH (1983 CE), Udayma won the King Faisal International Prize in Islamic Studies, being the sole laureate in that category for that year, in recognition of his multi-volume Quranic grammatical study . He died in 1404 AH (1984 CE) .
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Al-Mughni fi Tasrif al-Afal (The Enricher in Verbal Morphology) is a specialized treatise on Arabic morphology focusing on the conjugation, patterns, and derivation of verbs. It provides an exhaustive study of verbal structures, drawing upon classical grammatical and morphological literature while systematically verifying rules through comprehensive textual surveys of the Quran and its variant readings.
Dirasat li-Uslub al-Quran al-Karim (Studies on the Style of the Noble Quran) is an eleven-volume encyclopedic grammatical and morphological study of the Quran. Designed to function as a comprehensive grammatical dictionary, the work is organized into three major sections covering syntactic particles, Quranic morphology, and Quranic syntax based on an exhaustive survey of canonical and anomalous readings.