Title:

Grammatica critica linguae Arabicae, cum brevi metrorum doctrina

Short title

Grammatica critica linguae Arabicae

Title variations

Title in English

A critical grammar of the Arabic language

Section

Language

Latin

Creation date

1831

Genre

Content

Content table

Formal Expression

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Didactic / Educational

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Ewald’s Grammatica critica linguae Arabicae treats the Qurʾān not as a sacred text but as a primary linguistic document of early Arabic: verses are quoted briefly in Arabic, without translation or commentary, solely to illustrate grammatical and syntactic phenomena. By placing Qurʾānic Arabic alongside poetry and prose within a historical framework, Ewald helped establish the modern, critical study of Arabic and laid the groundwork for later scholarly analysis of the Qurʾān as a linguistic corpus.

Entry author

Gyöngyi Oroszi