al-Tabyin an Madhahib al-Nahwiyyin al-Basriyyin wa al-Kufiyyin
- Author died
- 616 AH
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- Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī
al-Tabyin ʿan Madhāhib al-Naḥwiyyīn al-Baṣriyyīn wa-al-Kūfiyyīn (The Clarification of the Doctrines of the Basran and Kufan Grammarians) is a work on comparative Arabic grammar by Abu al-Baqa al-Ukbari (538–616 AH / 1143–1219 CE), dedicated to the doctrinal disputes between the grammatical schools of Basra and Kufa .
Subject and Context
The book belongs to the genre of grammatical disputation literature (kutub al-khilāf), which developed alongside similar genres in Islamic jurisprudence . It systematically compiles and examines the differing grammatical opinions, analyses, and arguments held by the Basran and Kufan scholars on various points of syntax and morphology .
The text is frequently cited alongside Abu al-Barakat al-Anbari's al-Inṣāf fī Masāʾil al-Khilāf as one of the primary classical references documenting the debates between the two schools . In biographical and bibliographical literature, the work is also referred to as al-Tabyīn fī Masāʾil al-Khilāf bayna al-Baṣriyyīn wa-al-Kūfiyyīn and al-Taʿlīq fī al-Khilāf .
Publication History
The work was printed in Aleppo in 1961 . It was later edited by Abd al-Rahman al-Uthaymin and published by Dar al-Gharb al-Islami in Beirut (1406 AH / 1986 CE) and subsequently by Maktabat al-Obeikan in Riyadh (1421 AH) .
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