al-Miwiya fi Irab al-Quran al-Karim
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al-Miwiya fi Irab al-Quran al-Karim (The Centenary in the Parsing of the Noble Quran) is a contemporary treatise on applied Quranic grammatical analysis (iʿrāb) by Hazem Khanfar, covering the grammatical parsing of the first one hundred verses of the Quran .
Background and Purpose
The book is an excerpt and the initial installment of a broader, unfinished project by the author titled al-Manshud fi Irab al-Quran al-Karim (The Desired Work on the Parsing of the Noble Quran), which he had not yet had the full time to complete . Khanfar designed the text for non-specialists, intending to rectify the speech and pronunciation of Arabic speakers through minimal theoretical exposition and direct mental conceptualization .
Method and Structure
Khanfar established the methodology of the work upon three core pillars:
- Conceptualizing the semantic context related to grammatical function (tasawwur al-maʿna).
- Innate linguistic sense (al-saliqa al-lughawiyya).
- Formal grammatical rules (qawaʿid al-nahw) .
He sought to rely as much as possible on semantic understanding and natural linguistic intuition in order to minimize dependence on theoretical grammatical rules . In applying this approach, the author limited his analysis to the nearest clue required to ensure the correct vocalization of word endings: where an overt verbal clue (qarina lafziyya) sufficed, he contented himself with it, and where it did not, he detailed the conceptual grammatical meaning (qarina maʿnawiyya) . For elements that inherently do not require contextual clues for correct pronunciation—such as particles, pronouns, and demonstratives—he provided only basic classification without extensive syntactical breakdown .
To keep the work accessible, Khanfar dispensed with specialized grammatical technicalities, such as detailing latent or implied subject pronouns (al-faʿil al-mustatir) unless they govern a direct object, the syntactical attachment of prepositional phrases (taʿalluq shibh al-jumla), local parsing (al-iʿrab al-mahalli), and the parsing of clauses (iʿrab al-jumal) . When contextual indicators required mentioning such concepts, he avoided technical jargon .
The text opens with the parsing of Surat al-Fatiha and proceeds verse by verse through Surat al-Baqara across its hundred-verse scope .
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