Mustafa Ahmad al-Nammas
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Mustafa Ahmad al-Nammas was an Egyptian scholar of Arabic grammar and morphology and a lecturer at the Faculty of Arabic Language at Al-Azhar University .
Academic Career and Scholarship
Al-Nammas taught Arabic language and philology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo . His research focused on morphological patterns, syntactic variations, and the differences in terminology and rulings between Arabic grammarians and lexicographers . In 1978, he published a specialized study in the journal of the Faculty of Arabic Language investigating verbs that strictly take the passive voice (al-af‘al al-mulazimah lil-majhul) .
He also contributed to the critical editing of classical grammatical texts, notably preparing a multi-volume critical edition of Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi’s comprehensive grammatical treatise Irtishaf al-darab min lisan al-Arab (Sipping the Sweet Rain from the Tongue of the Arabs) . In his morphological monographs, including his study of the af‘al pattern, he synthesized dispersed rulings regarding transmitted usage (sama‘), analogy (qiyas), and irregular occurrences across early lexicographical and grammatical authorities .
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List of Works
This linguistic study investigates the morphological and syntactic functions of the pattern af‘al and the derived verb form af‘ala in Arabic grammar and lexicography. It compiles dispersed rulings regarding transmitted usage (samā‘), analogy (qiyās), irregularities (shudhūdh), and rare occurrences (nudūr), synthesizing discussions across grammatical and lexical treatises into an accessible reference for linguists and students of Arabic.
This specialized grammatical and morphological monograph examines the various manifestations, syntactic rules, and morphological behaviors of Arabic words built upon the root pattern fa‘lān and its vocalic variants (fi‘lān, fu‘lān, and fa‘alān). It consolidates widely scattered rules from across Arabic grammar and morphology into a unified study.