Inas al-Nas bi-Tuffahat Abi Jafar al-Nahhas
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Inas al-Nas bi-Tuffahat Abi Jafar al-Nahhas (Making Abu Jafar al-Nahhas's Apple Familiar to People) is a contemporary treatise on Arabic grammar written by Hazem Khanfar as an explanatory commentary on the classical primer al-Tuffahah fi al-Nahw by Abu Jafar al-Nahhas (d. 338 AH / 950 CE) .
Background and Purpose
The base text, al-Tuffahah fi al-Nahw, is a concise grammatical primer written by Abu Jafar Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Muradi al-Misri al-Nahhas . In the introduction, Khanfar characterizes the base text as unique in expression and structured to convey grammatical topics clearly without hardship for beginners, focusing on fundamental chapter divisions and avoiding convoluted sub-issues . Khanfar authored this concise commentary to elucidate the primer's topics, restricting his treatment closely to the original text and expanding beyond it only in limited instances where necessary . Khanfar dated the completion of the work to 5 Shawwal 1433 AH (23 August 2012 CE) .
Structure and Contents
The work opens with an authorial introduction and is organized into thirty-one topical chapters following the arrangement of the base text, concluded by a detailed index :
- Introductory Concepts and Inflection: Begins with the divisions of Arabic speech (Bab Aqsam al-Arabiyyah), desinential inflection (Bab al-I'rab), the nominative forms of duals and plurals, verbal categories, and the roles of subject and direct object .
- Governing Particles and Sentence Elements: Addresses the initial nominal subject (Bab al-Ibtida'), genitive particles, particles governing the accusative of nouns and nominative of predicates, particles governing the nominative of nouns and accusative of predicates, subjunctive particles governing imperfect verbs, response with the particle fa', jussive particles, nominative particles, and the passive subject (al-Maf'ul alladhi lam yusamma fa'iluh) .
- Modifiers and Dependent Structures: Covers definite and indefinite nouns, appositives (Ma yatba' al-ism fi i'rabih), adjectives (al-Na't), conjunctions (al-'Atf), corroboration (al-Tawkid), and substitution (al-Badal) .
- Specialized Grammatical Chapters: Discusses the circumstantial accusative (al-Hal), adverbs of time and place (al-Zuruf), incitement and warning (al-Ighra' wa-l-Tahdhir), explicative accusatives (al-Tafsir), exclamation (al-Ta'ajjub), the vocative (al-Nida'), numbers (al-'Adad), exception particles (Huruf al-Istithna'), feminine markers, eliding alifs in initial nouns (Alifat al-wasl), and indeclinable and diptotic nouns (al-Asma' allati la tansarif) .
Publication History
A second edition of the work was issued in 1442 AH / 2021 CE .
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