Abstract:

With the spread of Islam among non-Arab communities just after its rise,  particularly by the conquests, vowel points were placed on verses of the Quran and Islamic scholars started to compose first Arabic grammatical studies in order to provide non-Arab people read and understand the Quran correctly. The term of “᷾irab” which is defined as the determination of the vowel point of the last character of the word according the position of that word in the sentence is a branch of science supposed to be known by people who desires to study Islamic sciences. Therefore, Ottoman scholars composed so many works on “᷾irab” branch and composed commentary and complementary studies on earlier works too. In our work, the life, scientific background and works of Naqid İbrahim Efendi (d. 1717) and his work named “al-Sharḥ al-Sadeed li al-ʻAwamil al-Jadeed” was introduced. “al-Sharḥ al-Sadeed li al-ʻAwamil al-Jadeed” is a commentary work composed in Arabic language on İmam Birkiwi’s (d. 981/1573) brief work about Arabic syntax called “al-ʻAwamilu’l-Jadeed” which had been studied more than three centuries dating from XVI. centrury in Ottoman schools (madrasah) and on which so many commentary, complementray and translation works were composed. By introducing this work, information about the meaning of the title, purpose of the work, other works done on Imam Birkiwi’s work named “al-ʻAwamil al-Jadeed” (New ʻAwamil) which the author composed the commentary work on, and the differencies between “al-ʻAwamilu’l-Jadeed” and the same type of work of Sheikh Abd al Qahir Jurjani (d. 471/1078) which has the same name called “al-ʻAwamil al-ʻAteeq” (Old ʻAwamil), the content of “al-ʻAwamilu’l-Jadeed”, the method of the author which he implemented in his work and the manuscript copies of the work were given.

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