Sibawayhi
Sibawayhi ( Persian سيبويه Sībawaih ; * around 760; † around 793 in Shiraz ) was a Persian linguist from Bayza in the province of Fars and author of a grammar book called al-Kitab ("The Book"). The work is one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the Arabic language and isextremely detailed and precise, particularly in the fields of phonetics and phonology . His actual name was Abu Bashr ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar al-Basri /أبو بشر عمرو بن عثمان بن قنبر البصري / Abū Bašr ʿAmr b. ʿUṯmān b. Qanbar al-Baṣrī . His most important teacher was al-Chalīl ibn Ahmad al-Farāhīdi . He also studied with Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala' , Abu-l Hattab al-Achfasch, Yunus ibn Habib and Isa ibn Umar at-Taqafi .
Sibawayhi's linguistics was not an end in itself, but was primarily intended to help originally non-Arabic-speaking Muslims to read and understand the Koran . In doing so, Sibawayhi contributed to the spread of the Arabic language in the Middle East .
literature
- Kees Versteegh : The Arabic language , Edinburgh University Press, 2001
- Manfred Götz : The character of the prose documents in Sibawaih, Munich 1956
Web links
- Sibawayhi Project Contains the first and the last seven chapters of al-kitab fi n-nahw .
- e-text .
Individual evidence
- ^ Sylvain Auroux: History of Linguistics . Handbooks for Linguistics and Communication Studies, Vol. 18. De Gruyter, 2000. ISBN 3-11-011103-9 . Partial view in Google Book search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sibawayhi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sibawayh; Sibawaih; سيبويه; Abū Bashr ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar al-Basri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Persian linguist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 760 |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 793 |
| Place of death | Shiraz |