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An eighth-century grammatical school in Medina: the collection and evaluation of the available material1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Modern scholarship dealing with the history of Arabic grammar has almost entirely neglected serious consideration of the possibility that during the very early period of the Iraqi grammatical schools, a Medinese centre of that science was a living fact. I believe that the data collected by some scholars, including myself, will now allow the conclusion that such a school really existed and probably disappeared during the first century of the 'Abbāsid regime. First, the few accounts of eighth-century Medinese grammarians in modern works will be surveyed, then the available material will be carefully studied and evaluated.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1985

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