Ибн Аджуррум
Ибн Аджуррум
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition / Ibn Ād̲j̲urrūm
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Dāwūd al-Sanhād̲j̲ī , Moroccan grammarian born 672/1273-4, died 723/1323 at Fez, where he taught grammar and the art of Ḳurʾānic recitation. Ibn Ād̲j̲urrūm is the author of a celebrated Muḳaddima which bears his name, a little treatise of a few pages in which he sets out the system of the iʿrāb of words. This summary syntax, easy to memorize, has enjoyed to the present day great popularity in all the Arabic-speaking countries, in the west as well as in the east. Because of its extreme conciseness, the Muḳaddima has provoked about 60 commentaries by subsequent grammarians, which testify to its wide diffusion among teachers. The Muḳaddima has been known in Europe since the 10th/16th century, being one of the first treatises available to Arabists for the study of the Arabic grammatical system. It has been published a dozen times and translated into most European languages. It is to be remarked that al-Suyūṭī ( Bug̲h̲ya , 102) considers Ibn Ād̲j̲urrūm to represent the Kūfa grammatical school, basing himself on the fact that he uses the term k̲h̲afḍ , and that he considers the ¶ imperative to be muʿrab and the particle kayfamā to govern the d̲j̲azm .
Bibliography
- Brockelmann, II, 308-10, S II, 332-5
- M. al-Mak̲h̲zūmī, Madrasat al-Kūfa, Bag̲h̲dād 1955, 117
- G. Troupeau, Trois traductions latines de la Muqaddima d’Ibn Ād̲j̲urrūm, in Études d’Orientalisme dédiées à la mémoire de Lévi-Proçal, i, Paris 1962, 359-65.
- Troupeau, G., “Ibn Ād̲j̲urrūm”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Consulted online on 28 January 2017 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3065>