Yusuf al-Isawi
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Yusuf al-Isawi (Yusuf ibn Khalaf ibn Mahal al-Isawi) is a contemporary scholar and linguist specializing in Arabic grammar, legal linguistics, and Qur'anic syntax, known for his work Radd al-Buhtan 'an I'rab Ayat min al-Qur'an al-Karim .
Academic Career and Research
Al-Isawi received his doctorate with distinction from the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad . His doctoral dissertation, published under the title Athar al-Arabiyyah fi Istinbat al-Ahkam al-Fiqhiyyah min al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah (The Impact of the Arabic Language on Deducing Legal Rulings from the Prophetic Sunnah), explored the direct correlation between Arabic linguistics and the deduction of legal rulings in Islamic jurisprudence .
In the domain of Qur'anic linguistics, al-Isawi composed Radd al-Buhtan 'an I'rab Ayat min al-Qur'an al-Karim (Refuting Slander Regarding the Parsing of Verses from the Noble Qur'an) to examine and refute arguments alleging grammatical solecism (lahn) in the text of the Qur'an . He also engaged in grammatical historiography and manuscript verification; in his study 'Ilm I'rab al-Qur'an: Ta'sil wa-Bayan (The Science of Qur'anic Syntax: Foundations and Exposition), he refuted the historical attribution of the book I'rab al-Qur'an to Ismail al-Taymi .
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Radd al-Buhtan ‘an I‘rab Ayat min al-Qur’an al-Karim (Refuting Slander Regarding the Parsing of Verses from the Noble Qur’an) is a contemporary study in Qur’anic linguistics dedicated to defending the grammatical integrity and syntactic parsing (i‘rab) of the Qur’an against allegations of grammatical error (lahn).