Sulayman al-Ayed
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Sulayman al-Ayed (Sulayman ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Ayed) is a Saudi scholar and linguist specializing in Arabic grammar, lexicography, and the critical editing of classical texts.
Academic Career and Scholarly Contributions
Al-Ayed earned his doctoral degree (al-ʿālamiyyah) in the Arabic language through his critical edition of the fifth volume of Gharīb al-Ḥadīth (Rare Hadith Expressions) by Ibrahim ibn Ishaq al-Harbi. For this edition, he constructed detailed reference indexes for Quranic verses and the root terms of the rare vocabulary explicated in the text. The work was published by the Center for Scientific Research and Islamic Heritage Revival at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca.
His academic output focuses on classical Arabic grammar, morphological structures, and manuscript editing. Among his editorial projects is Abu Ja'far al-Labli's grammatical treatise Bughyat al-Āmāl fī Maʿrifat al-Nuṭq bi-Jamīʿ Mustaqbalāt al-Afʿāl (The Attainment of Hopes in Pronouncing All Imperfect Verbs), published under the auspices of Umm al-Qura University. He has also contributed linguistic and grammatical studies to scholarly periodicals, including the Umm al-Qura University Journal.
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List of Works
Ināyat al-Muslimīn bi-al-Lughah al-ʿArabiyyah Khidmah lil-Qurʾān al-Karīm (Muslims' Care for the Arabic Language in Service of the Holy Qur'an) is a scholarly treatise examining the historical and methodological devotion of Muslim scholars to the Arabic language as an instrument for understanding and preserving the Quran. Rather than presenting an exhaustive catalog or chronological history, the work focuses on the mutual interdependence between Qur'anic studies and the Arabic linguistic disciplines.
al-Ta‘ajjub min Fi‘l al-Maf‘ūl bayn al-Māni‘īn wal-Mujīzīna (Exclamation Derived from the Passive Verb between Prohibitors and Permitters) is a grammatical treatise examining the classical Arabic grammatical controversy over deriving exclamatory verbal forms directly from passive verbs. The study investigates scholarly debates surrounding this rule and outlines the various grammatical positions regarding direct derivation without an intermediary auxiliary.