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The language of Ḫaṣāʾiṣ is reputed to be difficult to access, and the thought of its author relat... more The language of Ḫaṣāʾiṣ is reputed to be difficult to access, and the thought of its author relatively opaque. With this book, readers now have a key to penetrate the linguistic thought of one of the most important grammarians in the Arabic grammatical tradition. It shows how Ibn Ǧinnī used the concepts of the episteme of his time to systematize grammatical explanatory reasoning. On reading this book, the reader will also perceive the importance attached by Ibn Ǧinnī to the role played by the speaker in language change, in that the speaker is seen as the true agent (ʿāmil) of his discourse. This work also offers the reader a broader perspective on Ibn Ǧinnī's relationship with the grammatical tradition, as it shows, for example, that most of Ibn Ǧinnī's diachronic reflections are borrowed from one of Sībawayhi's forgotten disciples (180/796): al-Aḫfaš al-Awsaṭ (215/830).
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This paper focuses on a grammarian of the Arabic tradition, Ibn Ǧinnī (d. 392/1002), and his argu... more This paper focuses on a grammarian of the Arabic tradition, Ibn Ǧinnī (d. 392/1002), and his argument in favour of the superiority of classical Arabic over Persian developed in his main work, al-Ḫaṣāʾiṣ. We will discuss his reasoning step by step bringing to light its specificity as compared to the discourse of his contemporary Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) who tackled the same issue. Our analysis is twofold: first, we will consider the question of how history and politics shape the representations of language developed by mediaeval scholars; and second, we will try to evaluate if linguistic ideas of this prescientific period could not benefit our modern linguistic sciences .
Book Reviews by Julien Sibileau
Historiographia Linguistica, 2023
Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 2021
The language of Ḫaṣāʾiṣ is reputed to be difficult to access, and the thought of its author relat... more The language of Ḫaṣāʾiṣ is reputed to be difficult to access, and the thought of its author relatively opaque. With this book, readers now have a key to penetrate the linguistic thought of one of the most important grammarians in the Arabic grammatical tradition. It shows how Ibn Ǧinnī used the concepts of the episteme of his time to systematize grammatical explanatory reasoning. On reading this book, the reader will also perceive the importance attached by Ibn Ǧinnī to the role played by the speaker in language change, in that the speaker is seen as the true agent (ʿāmil) of his discourse. This work also offers the reader a broader perspective on Ibn Ǧinnī's relationship with the grammatical tradition, as it shows, for example, that most of Ibn Ǧinnī's diachronic reflections are borrowed from one of Sībawayhi's forgotten disciples (180/796): al-Aḫfaš al-Awsaṭ (215/830).
This paper focuses on a grammarian of the Arabic tradition, Ibn Ǧinnī (d. 392/1002), and his argu... more This paper focuses on a grammarian of the Arabic tradition, Ibn Ǧinnī (d. 392/1002), and his argument in favour of the superiority of classical Arabic over Persian developed in his main work, al-Ḫaṣāʾiṣ. We will discuss his reasoning step by step bringing to light its specificity as compared to the discourse of his contemporary Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) who tackled the same issue. Our analysis is twofold: first, we will consider the question of how history and politics shape the representations of language developed by mediaeval scholars; and second, we will try to evaluate if linguistic ideas of this prescientific period could not benefit our modern linguistic sciences .
Historiographia Linguistica, 2023
Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 2021