Ibn Agroom's Kufic tendencies in the body of Al-Ajromiya

Abstract

The present study intends to explore views and perspectives of the Arab grammarian Ibn-ajroom Al-sanhaaji throughout his book "An introduction to Ajroomism ". More specifically, this study tries to examine Ibn-ajroom tendency to adopt the approach of Alkufa doctrine of Arabic language grammar in two ways : parsing or sentence structure analysis and grammatical terminologies .

   What actually lead me to consider this issue is several attempts that made by a lot of Arab grammarians in order to regard Ibn –Ajroom as one of those grammarians  who belong to Alkufa school of the Arabic grammar in spite of the fact that he was a latecomer grammarian and most of his contemporaries or generation belong to the elective approach of syntactic and grammatical analysis which are Baghdadi, Andalusia and Egyptian schools of grammar . This  of course, raised a very important question into my mind that is : how can we consider Ibn –ajromm as a keen follower to Alkfua doctrine of grammar though  he  came historically after the presence of this school of grammar .

As it will be shown throughout  this study , this  Arab scholar has revealed great tendency towards adopting grammatical viewpoints that  mainly introduced by Alkufa school of grammar however, some of his own findings ,views and perspectives in this regard have been found to be consistent and in line and conformity  with those of Albisraha school of Arabic grammar.

In the first part of this study the earliest  emergence of the Arabic language grammar and its origins will be  thoroughly reviewed followed by a brief account of the two major schools of Arabic language grammar : Albisrha and Alkufa and then a comprehensive and full biography of Ibn-ajroom will  be given before to highlight and discuss his own views , insights and perceptions  regarding grammatical structure and sentence parsing and   explain how they are much interrelated  and consistent with Alkufa school of Arabic language grammar