Arabic Grammar – PARADIGMS, LITERATURE, EXERCISES

Arabic Grammar – PARADIGMS, LITERATURE, EXERCISES

ARABIC GRAMMAR

The aim of the following pages is to furnish intending students of classical Arabic with the most import- ant rules both of the Accidence and of the Syntax in the briefest possible form.

 The present edition, the second in English, is a translation of the third German edition of 1894, to which, save for a few corrections and additions, it in all respects corresponds.

 Its German counterpart has been considerably altered compared with the second edition because of the’ publishers’ intention to issue a separate chrestomathy of Arabic prose. Professor R. Bruennow, a scholar of approved ability, was entrusted with the preparation of this work which appeared in the year 1894.

The connected narratives which formerly composed the chrestomathy of the grammar were, according to arrangement, incorporated in Bruennow’s work, and consequently had to be dropped from the new edition of the grammar.

On the other hand, the latter was now extended, more particularly in the part dealing with the syntax, with the result that it will now be found, with few exceptions, to be sufficient for the understanding of the new chrestomathy.

At the same time, the fact must again be emphasized that the present work does not pretend to take the place of any of the larger treatises; the English student who wishes to advance beyond the elements of Arabic must have recourse to the latest edition (the third) of Wright’s excellent grammar.

 For this reason, the author has deemed it his duty to adhere to his former view and to decline, in a book intended for beginners,