Ibn Jinni

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Abu l-Fath Uthman ibn Dschinni ( Arabic أبو الفتح عثمان بن جني, DMG Abū l-Fatḥ ʿUṯmān b. Ǧinnī ; known as Ibn Jinni  /ابن جني / Ibn Jinnī ; * at 920 in Mosul ; † 1002 in Baghdad ) was an Arabic grammarian .

Life

Commentary by Ibn Jinni on the poetry of al-Mutanabbis

Ibn Jinni was the son of a Greek slave and disciple of Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Mausili in Mosul and Abu Ali al-Farisi from Basra . In Fars he held the post of State Secretary Kātib al-inšāʾ and had good relations with al-Mutanabbi .

As a grammarian Ibn Dschinni occupied an intermediate position between the schools of Basra and Kufa . He is considered an expert in the field of taṣrīf ( morphology and morphonology ), also dealt with phonology and did research on Bedouin Arabic. His contribution to the science of etymology ( al-ištiqāq al-akbar ) is significant . Ibn Jinni also writes poems himself .

As his main works are considered كتاب الخصائص / kitāb al-ḫaṣāʾiṣ andكتاب سر الصناعة / kitāb sirr aṣ-ṣināʿa . The latter work is considered to be the first study of Arabic linguistics completely devoted to phonetics, in which the Arabic term for phonetics,علم الأصوات / ʿIlm al-aṣwāt , is called.

literature

  • Muhammad Hasan Bakalla: Ibn Jinni, an Early Arab Muslim Phonetician: An Interpretative Study of his Life and Contribution to Linguistics , in: Historiographia Linguistica 10: 1/2. 1983. pp. 103-111
  • J. Pedersen: Ibn D̲j̲innī , in: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Volume 3. 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abdul Rahman Ibrahim Alfozan: assimilation in Classical Arabic. A phonological study. Doctoral thesis at the University of Glasgow . 1989. p. 2
  2. ↑ Muhammed Hasan Bakalla: Ancient Arab and Muslim Phoneticians: An appraisal of their contribution to phonetics , in: Harry Hollien, Patricia Hollien: Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences . John Benjamin Publishing, 1979. ISBN 90-272-0910-3 . P. 5
personal data
SURNAME Ibn Jinni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abu l-Fath Uthman ibn Jinni; Ibn Djinni; ابن جني
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Arabic grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH around 920
PLACE OF BIRTH Mosul
DATE OF DEATH 1002
Place of death Baghdad