The word āmīn in Arabic
Jean Druel Director of IDEO icon-calendar Tuesday November 7ᵗʰ, 2017 In his short treatise entitled A glitter in the debate about the word āmīn used in supplication and its rules in Arabic, Ibn al-Ḫaššāb al-Baġdādī (d. 567/1172) presents the state of the art of the grammatical knowledge on the word āmīn in his time. All […]
What happened to the grammar of numerals after Sībawayhi?
Jean Druel, What happened to the grammar of numerals after Sībawayhi? Amal E. Marogy and Kees Versteegh (Editors). The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics II. Brill: Leiden, Boston, 2015. 81‒99.
The reception of Sībawayh’s Kitāb in the West
Jean Druel icon-calendar September 2015‒September 2020 In her PhD research (1992, published in 1995 under the title Les voies de la transmission du Kitāb de Sībawayhi, Brill) Geneviève Humbert has reveaIed the existence of a North African (Kairouan?) parchment of Sībawayh’s Kitāb, probably dated 5th/11th century. It’s a very rare parchment (not paper) that roughly contains […]
Why is it difficult to date when qalqala became unintelligible?
Jean Druel, « Why is it difficult to date when qalqala became unintelligible to Qurʾānic reciters and grammarians? », Arabica 62, 2015, p. 19‒52.
Ibn Manẓūr (711/1311): the Lisān al-ʿArab or the genius of compilation
Jean Druel Doctor in Arabic linguistics icon-calendar March 17, 2015 As the classical corpus of the Arabic language was practically closed by the 4th/10th century, the post-Arab lexicographers were then able to practice their art with the exhaustive compilation of the language’s words.
Jean Druel
Send him an email: jean.druel@ideo-cairo.org. Download its general bibliography in PDF Click here to see his authority record and list of publications on Diamond. Jean Druel is French and lives in Cairo. After a Master’s Degree in theology and Coptic patrology (L’expérience spirituelle de saint Pachôme…, Catholic Institute in Paris, 2002), he graduated in Teaching Arabic as Foreign […]