Baghdadi Grammar Doctrine Between Individualization and Agreement

Abstract

This research aims to identify Baghdadi grammar doctrine and review the beginning of its inception and the factors that helped in its emergence. Moreover, it clarifies Baghdadi grammar doctrine characteristics, its general approach in dealing with grammatical sources and their evidences as well as the opinions with which the majority of Baghdadi grammarians or a prominent one of them individuated and the opinions with which they supported Basri and Kufi doctrines. This research contains an introduction that clarifies the research questions, significance and methodology and a preliminary review that deals with the precursors of Baghdadi grammar emergence and the factors that helped in its development. Besides, it contains five sections. The first section deals with the characteristics of Baghdadi doctrine. The second section tackles the issues with which the majority of Baghdadi grammarians individuated. Moreover, the third section investigates the issues with which some Baghdadi grammarians individuated. The fourth section is devoted for the issues upon which Baghdadi grammarians agreed with Basri grammarians. Then, the fifth section deals with the issues upon which Baghdadi grammarians agreed with Kufi grammarians. After that, there is a conclusion that summarizes the results and recommendations of the research. Among those results is that Baghdadi doctrine was not just a selective doctrine, but rather an independent doctrine that has its own considerable principles. It has opinions that individuated it from Basri and Kufi doctrines. Besides, it was gathering al-sama'a, if it is considerable, and a-lqaias sources and tending to use mental and logical analysis.