Basra school of grammar

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center of Arabic linguistic scholarship linguistic tradition school of grammar

The Basra school of grammar was an early and highly influential center of linguistic scholarship in Basra that helped shape the rules and analysis of Classical Arabic.

Aliases (2)

Basran grammarians ×1
Basran school of grammar ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	center of Arabic linguistic scholarship → linguistic tradition → school of grammar →
basedOn	Bedouin speech → Quranic Arabic → pre-Islamic Arabic poetry →
comparedWith	Kufa school of grammar →
developed	principles of analogy (qiyās) in grammar → systematic rules of Classical Arabic grammar → terminology of Arabic syntax → theory of iʿrāb (case inflection) →
era	8th century → 9th century → early Abbasid period →
field	Arabic grammar → Arabic linguistics → philology →
focusesOn	lexicography → morphology → phonology → syntax →
follows	Basran grammatical methodology →
hasNotableMember	Abu Amr ibn al-Ala → Abu Ubayda → Abu Zayd al-Ansari → Al-Akhfash al-Akbar → Al-Akhfash al-Awsat → Al-Asmaʿi → Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi → Al-Mubarrad → Sibawayh → Yunus ibn Habib →
historicalSignificance	helped codify Classical Arabic → served as a model for later Arabic grammatical schools →
influenced	Arabic linguistic theory → Classical Arabic grammar → Kufa school of grammar → later Arabic grammarians →
influencedBy	Islamic scholarship in Basra → Quranic exegesis →
languageOfWorkOrName	Arabic →
locatedIn	Basra → Iraq →
notableWork	Kitab of Sibawayh →
opposedBy	Kufa school of grammar →
partOf	Classical Arabic grammatical tradition →
tradition	Basran grammatical tradition →
uses	analogical reasoning in grammatical analysis →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Classical Arabic →	codifiedBy
Kufa school of grammar →	comparedWith
Kufa school of grammar →	developedAlongside
Kufa school of grammar →	hasRival
Sibawayh ("Basran school of grammar") →	influenced
Kufa school of grammar ("Basran grammarians") →	opposedBy