al-Minhaj al-Mukhtasar fi Ilmay al-Nahw wa al-Sarf
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- Mu'assasat al-Rayyan li al-Tiba'ah wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzi'
al-Minhaj al-Mukhtasar fi Ilmay al-Nahw wa al-Sarf (The Abridged Curriculum in the Sciences of Grammar and Morphology) is a concise pedagogical treatise on Arabic grammar (nahw) and morphology (sarf) authored by Abd Allah al-Juday' .
Background and Purpose
The author completed the text on Tuesday night, 27 Ramadan 1420 AH (3 January 2000 CE) in Leeds, United Kingdom . Al-Juday' composed the manual to make the foundations of Arabic grammar and morphology accessible to non-specialists, intending it as the foundational first stage of an integrated educational curriculum designed to prepare students for the study and comprehension of Islamic sciences .
Having taught the material multiple times in his own lessons and observing strong student engagement, the author published the text for wider public benefit . He intentionally omitted practical exercises from the work because he initially designed it for live oral instruction, and he advised students to study it directly under a qualified teacher .
Method and Sources
The book organizes grammatical and morphological concepts according to modern classification methods (al-taqsim al-hadith) . Al-Juday' placed special emphasis on drawing illustrative examples directly from the Quran, deliberately setting aside poetic citations (al-shi'r) whenever an appropriate Quranic verse was available . In addition to grammar and morphology, the work incorporates essential supplementary rules of Arabic orthography (al-imla') .
The material was summarized and selected from several reference works in the field . Among the primary sources cited by the author are:
- al-Azhiyyah fi Ilm al-Huruf by Ali ibn Muhammad al-Harawi
- al-I'rab fi Qawa'id al-I'rab by Ibn Hisham
- Awdah al-Masalik ila Alfiyyat Ibn Malik by Ibn Hisham
- Jami' al-Durus al-Arabiyyah by Mustafa al-Ghalayini
- al-Jana al-Dani fi Huruf al-Ma'ani by al-Hasan ibn Qasim al-Muradi
- Rasf al-Mabani fi Sharh Huruf al-Ma'ani by Ahmad ibn Abd al-Nur al-Malaqi
- Shadha al-Urf fi Fann al-Sarf by Ahmad al-Hamlawi
Publication
The book was published in its third edition in 1428 AH / 2007 CE by al-Juday' for Research and Consultations in Leeds, in co-distribution with Mu'assasat al-Rayyan in Beirut .
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