The Arabic Language Academy in Cairo vis-Ã -vis a New Grammatical Phrase: al-ism al-á¹¯ulÄá¹¯Ä« (The Case of sÄfara Muá¸¥ammad Ê¿AlÄ« á¸¤asan)

Shlomit Shraybom-Shivtiel

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The Arabic Language Academy in Cairo vis-Ã -vis a New Grammatical Phrase: al-ism al-á¹¯ulÄá¹¯Ä« (The Case of sÄfara Muá¸¥ammad Ê¿AlÄ« á¸¤asan)

In: From SÄ«bawayhi to Ê¾Aá¸¥mad á¸¤asan al-ZayyÄt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition

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The regular Arabic pattern of a personâs proper name was essentially formed as a chain of pedigree introduced by the names of the personâs ancestors with the word ibn between them, such as Fayá¹£al (i)bn á¸¤usayn (i)bn Ê¿AlÄ«.

In modern times, in Egypt under Western rule, a new model began to prevail. The proper name became a combination of a first name and an additional name, but the word ibn was omitted even though the relationship between the two names was usually of a son and his father (or grandfather), as, for example, in the name of the famous writer á¹¬ÄhÄ á¸¤usayn (originally á¹¬ÄhÄ (i)bn á¸¤usayn). Moreover, sometimes the official proper name became a combination of three juxtaposed names with no ibn in between. Thus, it turned into ism á¹¯ulÄá¹¯Ä«, three names coming together while the word ibn is absent, as in Muá¸¥ammad Ê¿AlÄ« á¸¤asan instead of Muá¸¥ammad (i)bn Ê¿AlÄ« (i)bn á¸¤asan.

This phenomenon actually created a new grammatical pattern in which the status of its components and their Ê¾iÊ¿rÄb were doubtful.

In his efforts to find a reasonable solution to the problem, Ê¾Aá¸¥mad á¸¤asan al-ZayyÄt, one of the members of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo, proposed to avoid the case endings in this new pattern and to enable taskÄ«n of the doubtful components. Al-ZayyÄtâs proposal created a long discussion inside the Academy, lasting for more than two decades and ending with a solution whereby the user was given the right to choose between the use or avoidance of the case endings in the new pattern. By doing so, the Academy remained faithful to its ideology and did not renounce its adherence to the heritage of Arabic grammar but provided the Arabic language with an additional optional model.

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From SÄ«bawayhi to Ê¾Aá¸¥mad á¸¤asan al-ZayyÄt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition

Series:Â Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 101

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The Arabic Language Academy in Cairo vis-Ã -vis a New Grammatical Phrase: al-ism al-á¹¯ulÄá¹¯Ä« (The Case of sÄfara Muá¸¥ammad Ê¿AlÄ« á¸¤asan)

From SÄ«bawayhi to Ê¾Aá¸¥mad á¸¤asan al-ZayyÄt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition