Sa'id al-Afghani
Sa'id al-Afghani was a professor of
University of Damascus. He was regarded as one of the 20th century's leading scholars in both fields.[1]
Life
Afghani was born in
Syrian mother.[1] Having been born in an Arab country, Afghani spoke the language as his mother tongue and was eventually appointed to the position of professor of the Arabic language and later dean of the faculty of arts at the University of Damascus. He also taught at universities in Jordan, Libya and Saudi Arabia.[1] Afghani died on February 18, 1997, in Mecca
, where he was buried.
Works
Afghani's most well-known work is al-Mujaz, a book attempting to simplify
Arab World.[3]
Afghani also spent ten years composing a biography of
Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azmi
.
Edited works
- Ibn Hazm, Mulakhkhas Ibtal al-Qiyas wa al-Ra'y wa al-Istihsan wa al-Taqlid wa al-Ta'lil. Damascus: University of Damascus Press, 1960.[6][7][8]
- Ibn Muhanna, Tarikh Darayya. Damascus: al-Majma' al-'Ilmi al-'Arabi, 1950.[9]
Original works
- A'isha wa-al-Siyasse. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1971.[4]
- al-Müjaz fī qawāʻid al-lughah al-ʻarabīyah. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1969. Arabic.[10][11] OCLC number 30066819
- Fi usul an-nahw. Damascus, 1951.[12]
- Hadir al-luga al-Arabiyya fi as-sam. Cairo, 1962.[12]
- Ibn Hazm wa Risalatuhu al-Mufadhala baina al-Sahaba. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1969.[13][14]
Citations
- ^ a b c d Adil Salahi, Scholars of renown: Saeed Al-Afghani. Arab News: Thursday, April 18th, 2002. Archived 2013-04-07 at archive.today
- ^ Salih J. Altoma, "Language Education in Arab Countries and the Role of the Academies." Taken from Advances in language planning, pgs. 295 and 303. Ed. Joshua Fishman. The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., 1974.
- ^ Al Arabi Magazine Archived 2010-09-17 at the Wayback Machine: the Idea and the Reality, at Al-Arabi's official website.
- ^ a b Fatema Mernissi, Women in Muslim History: Traditional Perspectives and New Strategies Archived 2014-06-03 at the Wayback Machine. Taken from Women's Rebellion and Islamic Memory. London: Zed Books, 1996.
- ISBN 9789004234246
- ^ Saim Kayadibi, Ijtihad by Ray: The Main Source of Inspiration behind Istihsan Archived 2012-11-24 at the Wayback Machine, pg. 91. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, vol. 24, #1.
- ISBN 9789004243101
- ^ Camilla Adang, "Ibn Hazm on Homosexuality," pg. 13. Al-Qantara, vol. XXIV. 2003.
- ^ Khalid Yahya Blankinship, The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishām Ibn ʻAbd Al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads, pg. 360. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
- ^ WorldCat, al-Müjaz fī qawāʻid al-lughah al-ʻarabīyah.
- Universiti Putra Malaysiacatalog.
- ^ a b Altoma, pg. 307.
- ^ Leigh Chipman, "Ibn Hazm - Bibliography of Secondary Sources." Taken from Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pg. 763.
- ^ Zahirism at Islamic Philosophy Online.
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