Open AccessA LITERARY READING IN THE LINGUISTIC EFFORTS OF IBN QUTAYBA IN HIS BOOK ADAB AL-KĀTIB “THE WRITER'S LITERATURE”
Author(s) -
Saleḥ ABBOUD
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
rimak international journal of humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2717-8293
DOI - 10.47832/2717-8293.15.40
Subject(s) - linguistics , orthography , reading (process) , history , subject (documents) , arabic , linguistic analysis , literature , philosophy , art , computer science , library science
Ibn Qutayba (d. 276 AH / 889 AD) was attentive in both the Arabic linguistics and its literature, whereas he hath assorted numerous workbooks which testify his care about, and those who came after, have been benefited from his critical material on the fields of language and literature, this incipit of the research is concerned with reading Ibn Qutayba's linguistic views through the subject of his book Adab al-Kātib “The Writer's Literature” particularly those related to orthography and solecism in the Arabs’ language, and the importance of the research lies in shedding light on the Arab linguistic legacy in the third century AH\ ninth century AD, and displaying the impact of Ibn Qutayba in it, and the objective of the research is to analyze what was mentioned in two important linguistic topics from the book of Adab al-Kātib “The Writer’s Literature” which are: the topic of rectification of the hand and the topic of rectification of the tongue, which they are both linguistic topics that show the prevailing linguistics status in the era of Ibn Qutayba, thence, they are also considered a door to understanding the linguistic opinions that the writer gleaned from his wells and sheikhs. The research deals with linguistic problems related to the orthography and the Arab solecism and phonetics among the populace in the era of Ibn Qutayba, relying on a research framework that begins with a preamble considering both the writer and the book, and then deals with the linguistics status in the third century AH through what was mentioned in the book’s sermon, then he presents some of what was mentioned in his book Adab al-Kātib ”The Writer’s Literature” in the two chapters; rectification of the hand and rectification of the tongue, then epitomized the disputations between Ibn Qutayba and the commentators of his book regarding the two mentioned sections, and the research is concluded with a brief epilogue that presents his most prominent conclusions.