Ibn Adjurrum
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Ibn Ājurrūm (
famous for an Arabic synoptic grammar.Biography
Ibn Adjurrum was born at Fez in 1273-4. He was of Berber origin from the sanhaja Berber tribe. His relatives were from the neighborhood of Ṣafrū. "Ādjurrūm" is a Berber word meaning “religious man” and “poor ṣūfī" (ascetic, Shilḥa: agurram). His grandfather, Dāwūd, is said to have been the first to bear the name.[2][3]
He died on Tuesday, March 1, 1323. He was buried the next day within the town in Adwat Al-Andalus, the Andalusi quarter near Bāb al-Hamra, also known as Bāb al-Jīzyin.[4]
Al-Ājurrūmīyya
A text entitled Muqaddima (مقدّمة) “Prolegomena” bears the author's name. In full, Al-Muqadimma al-Adjurrumiya fi Mabadi Ilm al-Arabiya, or Matn Al-Ajrumiyyah (متن المقدمة الآجرومية), commonly abbreviated to
Known in Europe from the 16th century, the Muqaddima was one of the first treatises available to European Arabists for the study of the Arabic grammatical system. Translations have been regularly and widely published in most European languages. It was published in twelve different European versions and editions.[5] A Latin translation of Ibn Adjurrum's Arabic grammar was made by the Italian Franciscan friar, Thomas Obicini of Novara, who had lived for a time as an abbot in Aleppo, and published in Italy in 1621 with the title Grammatica Arabica.[6]
References
- ^ Troupeau, G. (24 April 2012). "Ibn Ād̲j̲urrūm". BrillOnline Reference Works. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
- T.W. Arnold, R. Basset, R. Hartmann. Consulted online on 26 April 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-871X_ei1_SIM_2943
- ^ Sarton, George (1947). Introduction to the History of Science. Vol. 3. p. 1009.
- ^ M. Th. Houtsma, E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936, see entry "Ibn Adjurrum" NS GAL II, 237 and BJ (2)
- ^ Christian Literature Society for India; Hartford Seminary Foundation (1 January 1920). The Moslem World. Published for the Nile Mission Press by the Christian Literature Society for India. p. 88. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ Obicini, Thomas Grammatica Arabica
- ^ Troupeau, G. (24 April 2012). "Ibn Ād̲j̲urrūm". BrillOnline Reference Works. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
Bibliography
- Brockelmann, II, 308-10, S II, 332-5
- M. al-Mak̲h̲zūmī, Madrasat al-Kūfa, Bag̲h̲dād 1955, 117
- G. Troupeau, Trois traductions latines de la Muqaddima d'Ibn Ād̲j̲urrūm, in Études d'Orientalisme dédiées à la mémoire de Lévi-Proçal, i, Paris 1962, 359-65.
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