Kufa school of grammar
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The Kufa school of grammar was an influential early Islamic linguistic tradition centered in the Iraqi city of Kufa, known for its distinctive approaches to Arabic grammar and its rivalry with the Basra school.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Basran school | 0 | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguistic tradition
→
school of Arabic grammar → |
| basedOn |
Bedouin Arabic
→
Qurʾanic usage → poetic evidence → |
| centeredIn | Kufa → |
| comparedWith | Basra school of grammar → |
| country | Iraq → |
| developedAlongside | Basra school of grammar → |
| emergedInCentury | 8th century → |
| emergedInPeriod | early Abbasid period → |
| field |
Arabic studies
→
linguistics → |
| follows |
Kufan linguistic tradition
→
tradition of Kufa → |
| hasApproach |
acceptance of rare and anomalous forms
→
tradition-oriented grammatical reasoning → |
| hasCharacteristic |
greater acceptance of linguistic variation
→
greater reliance on transmitted reports → more descriptive approach to grammar → use of Qurʾanic readings as grammatical evidence → |
| hasRival | Basra school of grammar → |
| historicalPeriod | early Islamic period → |
| influenced |
later Arabic grammatical tradition
→
medieval Islamic linguistics → |
| influencedBy |
Kufan hadith scholars
→
Qurʾanic reciters of Kufa → |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Arabic → |
| locatedIn |
Iraq
→
Kufa → |
| mainInterest |
Arabic grammar
→
Arabic lexicography → Arabic philology → Qurʾanic exegesis → |
| notableFigure |
Al-Farrāʾ
→
Al-Kisāʾī → Al-Kūfī grammarians → Abu Amr ibn al-Ala →
surface form:
Al-Mufaḍḍal al-Ḍabbī
Al-Ruʾāsī → |
| opposedBy |
Basra school of grammar
→
surface form:
Basran grammarians
|
| partOf | early Islamic scholarship → |
| region | Iraq → |
| scholarlyDiscipline |
nahw (syntax)
→
ṣarf (morphology) → |
| traditionWithin | Islamic scholarship → |
| usedIn |
Arabic lexicography
→
Arabic poetry analysis → Qurʾanic grammar → |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Basran school