Some Views on the Baghdad Language School and Its Prominent Linguists: Analytical Approach

Abstract

Arabic grammar emerged with the objective of preventing the incorrect recitation of the Qur’an and averting misunderstandings by attempting to read an Arabic text correctly within the framework of certain rules and principles. Originating in Basra, systematic studies were sequentially conducted in Kufa, Baghdad, Andalusia, and Egypt. Within this framework, some linguists from Basra and Kufa who settled in Baghdad by carrying out studies that brought different perspectives on the linguistic field basically made a choice between the views of these two schools and blended them while also introducing their own perspectives, thus forming the Baghdad School of Arabic Grammar. This article discusses the Baghdad language school and the prominent linguists in it. The introduction provides fundamental information about the emergence and formation of Arabic grammar. Subsequently, it elucidates the formation process of the Baghdad School of Arabic Grammar following the Basra and Kufa linguistic schools, outlining its fundamental approaches and characteristics. Additionally, it provides brief information about the lives and works of influential linguists who pioneered the formation of the Baghdad School, such as Ahfesh al-Awset, Ibn Qaysan, Abu Ali al-Farisi and Ibn Jinni, and their different linguistic views from previous linguists were discussed with an analytical approach