Ittifaq al-Mabani wa Iftiraq al-Maani
- Author died
- 613 AH
- Editions
- Dār ‘Ammār
Ittifaq al-Mabani wa Iftiraq al-Maani (Agreement of Word-Forms and Divergence of Meanings) is an Arabic philological and lexicographical treatise by the Egyptian grammarian and man of letters al-Daqiqi (d. 613 AH / 1216 CE; also reported as 614 AH) . The work focuses on Arabic lexical semantics and homonymy, examining words that share identical morphological structures and surface forms but convey distinct definitions .
Subject and Content
Composed in a single volume, the treatise belongs to the Arabic lexicological genre devoted to homographs and semantic variation (المشترك اللفظي) . The author systematically gathers Arabic vocabulary items where phonetic and morphological structures converge while their meanings diverge, providing definitions, rare usages, and synonymous equivalents .
Transmission and Reception
The biographer and geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi met al-Daqiqi in person during multiple scholarly gatherings in Cairo held in the presence of al-Qadi al-Akram . During these sessions, al-Daqiqi granted Yaqut a direct license (إجازة) to narrate and transmit his writings, among which Yaqut explicitly enumerated Ittifaq al-Mabani wa Iftiraq al-Maani . The book was also recorded among his major linguistic contributions in later biographical compendia by scholars such as al-Suyuti and Isma'il Pasha al-Babani .
Manuscripts and Publication
Manuscript copies of the work have been preserved in Cairo at the Egyptian National Library (Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya, historically cataloged under the Khedivial collection) and documented by the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts .
The work was edited by Dr. Yahya 'Abd al-Ra'uf Jabr and published in a single volume by Dar 'Ammar in Amman (1st edition, 1405 AH / 1985 CE) .
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