Open AccessDie Grenzen der Grammatiker: der Streit um die kanonischen Lesarten des Koranverses قَالُوٓاْ إِنْ هَٰذَانِ لَسَٰحِرَانِ qālū ʾin hāḏāni la-sāḥirāni, Sure 20 (Ṭāhā), Vers 63
Author(s) -
Salah Ata Fakhry
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of arabic and islamic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0806-198X
DOI - 10.5617/jais.6712
Subject(s) - argumentative , philosophy , argument (complex analysis) , linguistics , value (mathematics) , islam , humanities , theology , chemistry , mathematics , biochemistry , statistics
This paper investigates the attitudes of different schools of Arab grammarians towards the passage in sūra 20, ʾin hāḏāni la-sāḥirāni (as such in the Cairene textus receptus). Analyzing the approach to the different qirāʾāt (readings) of this passage, three lines of argument emerge: (i) one group of grammarians dismissed any qirāʾāt that did not conform to their own grammatical opinions; (ii) a second group of grammarians cautiously adduced various qirāʾāt as evidence for their own grammatical opinions; (iii) a third group of grammarians assigns a grammatical key value to a qirāʾa with an authentic ʾisnād and argues that such qirāʾāt do not need further argumentative support.