Sirafi's commentary on Sibawayh's Kitab

شرح كتاب سيبويه للسيرافي

Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi's commentary on Sibawayh's Kitab. The Zein edition's editor draws on manuscript and printed copies of it to clarify the difficult passages of the Kitab, and notes that al-Sirafi already observed the Kitab's repetitions and split treatments. 1 2

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Abu Saʿid al-Sirafi's commentary on Sibawayh's book. The editor of the Zayn edition relies on it to clarify the difficult passages of the book, and quotes passages from it with reference to their places 2.

Al-Sirafi's methodological remarks

Al-Sirafi draws attention to the phenomenon of repetition in the book and to the way a single subject is divided across it. His remarks on Sibawayh's method and the order of its chapters continued to be cited into later times 1.

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Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi
Commentary on
Sibawayh's Kitab

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Kalim and kalam (word classes and utterance)· Sibawayh· يوسف السيرافي· Baghdad· Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi· Sibawayh's Kitab

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  1. Sibawayh's Kitab, methodical arrangement and edition (Zein, 2015) , p.7
  2. Sibawayh's Kitab, methodical arrangement and edition (Zein, 2015) , p.11
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