From Sībawayhi to ʾAḥmad Ḥasan al-Zayyāt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction • Beata Sheyhatovitch and Almog Kasher
In and out of the Metalanguage: Some Reconsiderations of the Technical Vocabulary of Arabic Grammar • Michael G. Carter
Views Concerning the ʿāmil of the Predicate of the Nominal Sentence Incorrectly Ascribed to Sībawayhi • Aryeh Levin
Reading Poetry with Sībawayhi: Ittisāʿ/saʿat al-kalām and Metaphorical Thinking in the Kitāb • Avigail Noy
Aspects of Syntactic Effect (ʿamal) in Arabic Grammatical Tradition: The Term šuġl in Sībawayhi’s al-Kitāb and Beyond • Almog Kasher
Less Familiar Types of ʾan according to Arabic Grammarians • Arik Sadan
A Sparkle in the Debate about the Word ʾāmīn Used in Supplication and Its Rules in Arabic, by ʾAbū Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḫaššāb (d. 567/1172), an Annotated Translation • Jean N. Druel
The Theory of Definition in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī • Beata Sheyhatovitch
Comparison to Arabic as an Exegetical Method in Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi’s Commentary on the Bible • Avi Tal
The Arabic Language Academy in Cairo vis-à-vis a New Grammatical Phrase: al-ism al-ṯulāṯī (The Case of sāfara Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥasan) • Shlomit Shraybom-Shivtiel
Index of Qurʾānic Quotations
Index of Names
Index of Terms