Arabic
Naḥw, ṣarf, and the language of revelation.
Notes on classical Arabic grammar (naḥw) and morphology (ṣarf), structured around the readers traditionally used to bridge the language of the Qur'an and Sunnah: Tasheel al-Naḥw, Hidāyat al-Naḥw, Qaṭr al-Nadā, and the Madinah course.
Where vocabulary or rhetorical features of the Qur'an are unpacked, the relevant verses are cited inline so the rule and the example sit on the same page.
Classical texts
1 series
A working primer in Arabic morphological forms — the verb patterns, the rules of derivation, and the parsing exercises that bridge naḥw and ṣarf.
6 lessonsOpen series
Articles & biographies
It is said النحو روح اللغة العربية والإعراب روح النحو Nahw is the soul of Arabic and, I’rab is the …
ReadArticle20 January 2019It is said; إنَّ النَّحوَ بابُه حديدٌ، و داخلُه قصبٌ Indeed the door to Nahw is made of iron, whilst …
ReadArticle9 December 2018:في آخر خطبة خطبها عمر بن عبد العزيز من منبر الجامع الكبير في دمشق قال The last sermon of Umar …
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