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Al-Bustānī's Approach to the Arabic Language: From Theory to Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2019

FRUMA ZACHS  and
YEHUDIT DROR
FRUMA ZACHS
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Abstract

Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819–1883) was one of the leading figures of the Nahḍa period. In most studies on the Nahḍa, his activities, work and projects are seen as having made an important contribution to the revival of the Arabic language by transforming it to meet the needs of modern times. Although his lexical contribution has been researched there is no comprehensive research on his grammatical contribution to the Arabic language. This article shows that al-Bustānī's Encyclopedia reflects a conservative approach toward grammar in that he confined himself to abridging the grammatical rules enshrined by traditional grammarians. However, he took a liberal and reformist approach to the lexicon that drew on both classical and Western sources.

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Buṭrus al-BustānīNahḍaDāʾirat al-MaʿārifArabic Lexicon Arabic Grammar
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , July 2019 , pp. 393 - 413
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31 A similar example is the term istithnāʾ “exception” (Vol. 3, 379), where al-Bustānī explains its meaning briefly and then indicates that there are two types of istithnāʾ: al-istithnāʾ al-muttaṣil “the thing excepted (al-mustathnā) is joined to, or the same kind as, the general term (al-mustathnā minhu)” and al-istithnāʾ al-munqatiʿ “the exception is severed from, or wholly different in kind from the general term”.

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47 Al-bayān is a branch which covers rhetorical figures that contribute to the creation of a literary image. For the three main branches of rhetoric see: A. A. Hussein, The Rhetorical Fabric of the Traditional Arabic Qaṣīda in the Formative Stages: A Comparative Study of the Rhetoric in Two Traditional Poems by ʿAlqama l-Faḥl and Bashshār b. Burd, (Wiesbaden, 2015), pp. 1–9.

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53 See: Dror, “A definition of the term ʾiḫtiṣāṣ”, pp. 84–85.

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55 Al-Bustānī, Miṣbāḥ al-ṭālib, pp. 40–44.

56 Al-Bustānī, Miṣbāḥ al-miftāḥ, pp. 47–51.

57 Mubarrad, al-Muqtaḍab, Vol. 1, p. 209.

58 Al-Bustānī (vol. 2, 443) begins with reference to the term ittisāʿ in medicine, or more precisely to ittisāʿ al-ʿaṣab al-mujawaff “the expanse of the optic nerve”.

This medical terminology is mentioned in old Arabic sources, such as Rāzī, ʾAbū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakariyā, Kitāb al-ḥāwī fī l-ṭibb, (Beirut, 2000), Vol. 1, p. 206Google Scholar.

59 Al-Bustānī mentions the verse idhā qāmatā taḍawwaʿa al-misku minhumā nasīma ṣ-ṣabbā jāʾat bi-rayyā l-qarnafuli “When they stood up, the scent of the musk wafted from both of them, a pleasant breeze carried the smell of the clove”. The critics say that this verse should be paraphrased as taḍawwaʿa mithla al-miski minhumā nasīmu ṣ-ṣabbā “the pleasant breeze wafted like their [scent of] musk [wafted], or like the [scent of] the musk [wafted] from them”. Others say that it should be paraphrased as taḍawwaʿa al-misku minhumā ka- taḍawwuʿi nasīmi ṣ-ṣabbā “The musk wafted from them like the waft of the pleasant breeze”. This elaboration in known as al-ittisāʿ al-badīʿī “the rhetorical extension”.

A similar definition of the term al-ittisāʿ al-badīʿī is mentioned in old sources such as al-ʿAdwānī ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm Ibn al-Wāḥid Ibn Ẓāfir Ibn Abī al-Iṣbaʿ, Taḥrir al-taḥbīr fī ṣināʿat al-shiʿr wa-l-nathr (no publication house, 1963), p. 454.

60 See: Dror, Y. and Jabarin, A., “Occurrences of the term saʿat āl-kalām in Arabic grammatical tradition”, Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition 16 (2018), pp. 1–20Google Scholar.

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Versteegh explains this as follows: “In an ordinary deletion (ḥadhf) the governing word (ʿāmil) of the governed word (maʿmūl fīhi) disappears from the construction, while the declensional relationship between them remains intact”.

62 Al-Bustānī, Miṣbāḥ al-ṭālib, pp. 199–200.

63 Al-Bustānī, Miṣbāḥ al-miftāḥ, pp. 291–292.

64 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 3, p. 698.

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67 Other examples can be found in the following entries: istiʾnāf (Vol. 3, 443); iʿrāb (Vol. 3765); imāla (Vol. 4, 352); tābiʿ (Vol. 6, 2).

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70 Ibid., Vol. 3, p. 10.

71 Ibid., Vol. 4, p. 102.

72 Ibid., Vol. 5, pp. 179–180.

73 Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 287.

74 Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 619.

75 Ibid., Vol. 6, p. 201. See also Glaß, Butrus al-Bustānī (1819–1883) als Enzyklopädiker, p. 137.

76 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 1, p. 386.

77 Ibn Manẓūr Abū al-Faḍl Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Mukram, Lisān al-ʿarab (Beirut, 1994), Vol. 1, p. 26Google Scholar.

78 Al-Fīrūzābādī, Majd al-Dīn Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad Ibn Yaʿqūb, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ (Beirut, 2005), p. 341Google Scholar.

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80 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 259.

81 Al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, 1265.

82 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 6, p. 441.

Versteegh, The Arabic Language, p. 230 says that this word denotes originally “strip of palm-leaf used for writing”.

83 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 402.

84 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 6, p. 574.

85 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 478.

86 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 6, p. 576.

87 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 486.

88 Al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, p. 506.

89 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 6, p. 683.

90 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 2, p. 17.

91 Al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, p. 981.

92 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 3, p. 768.

93 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 4, p. 417.

94 Issa, “The Arabic language and Syro-Lebanese national identity searching in Buṭrus al-Bustānī's Muḥīṭ al-Muḥīṭ”, pp. 469–470.

95 Jandora, Butrus al-Bustani, Arab consciousness and Arabic revival, p. 73; Abu-Manneh, The Christians between Ottomanism and Syrian nationalism, pp. 287–304; Zachs, “Toward a proto-nationalist”, pp. 145–173.

96 See for more details, Zachs, F., The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in 19th Century Beirut (Leiden, 2005)Google Scholar.

97 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 184.

98 Al-Farrāʾ (144/761-207/822) was a grammarian, who belonged to the school of Kūfa.

99 Al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, p. 180.

100 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 135.

101 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 1, p. 125.

102 Al-Kisāʾī (119/737-189/805) was one of the transmitters of the seven canonical Qirāʾāt, or methods of reciting the Qurʾān. He was also the founder of the Kufi school of Arabic grammar.

103 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 5, p. 374.

104 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 201.

105 Al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, p. 180.

106 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 256.

107 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 1, p. 343.

108 Al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, p. 1264.

109 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 32.

110 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 1, p. 166.

111 A similar example is the word akh “brother”. See: Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 48; al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, 1076 and al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 2, p. 614. And umm “mother”. See: Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʻarab, Vol. 1, p. 111 and al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 2, p. 614.

112 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, Vol. 6, p. 408.

113 al-Fīrūzābādī, al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, 264.

114 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 2, p. 560.

115 A similar example is the word usbūʿ. See: Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 3, p. 237 and al-Bustānī Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 3, p. 383.

116 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʻarab, Vol. 1, p. 186.

117 An additional example is the word jūʿ “hunger”. In classical lexicography (see Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʻArab, vol. 1, 488) it is defined as the lack of feeling of satiety. Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 6, p. 594, however refers exhaustively to the physical aspects of hunger.

118 Al-Bustānī, Dāʾirat al-maʿārif, Vol. 5, pp. 534–535.

119 Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿarab, Vol. 1, p. 238.