The Distinctive Terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī

279 Pages·2018·1.36 MB·English

by  Beata Sheyhatovitch

TheDistinctiveTerminologyinS̆arḥal-KāfiyabyRaḍīl-Dīnal-ʾAstarābāḏī
Studies in
Semitic Languages
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The Distinctive Terminology in
S̆arḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn
al-ʾAstarābāḏī
By
BeataSheyhatovitch
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 TheBook’sObjective 3
1.3 TheStructureoftheBook 6
1.4 RemarksontheTranslationofArabicTerms 7
2 GeneralTendencies 11
2.1 ATendencytowardsAccurateFormulations 11
2.2 ATendencytowardsAbstractTerminology 18
2.2.1 AbstractTermsDerivedfromGrammaticalTerms 20
2.2.2 AbstractTermsDerivedfromNon-technicalWords 27
2.3 Useof“Kūfan”Terms 31
2.4 TermsfromOtherIslamicSciences 41
2.4.1 TermsfromLogicandPhilosophy 41
2.4.2 TermsfromIslamicJurisprudence 66
3 TheTermwaḍʿandItsDerivatives 74
3.1 TheTermwaḍʿinGrammaticalLiteraturepriortoRDA 75
3.2 TheTermwaḍʿinIslamicPhilosophy 78
3.3 TheTermwaḍʿinIslamicTheologyandJurisprudence 81
3.4 TheTermwaḍʿinŠarḥal-Kāfiya 84
3.4.1 TheDefinitionof waḍʿ 84
3.4.2 TypesofCoinedElements 85
3.4.3 CoinageversusUsage 112
3.4.4 SignificationbyCoinageversusOtherTypesof
Signification 121
4 TermsDerivedfromtheRootsṭ-r-ʾandʿ-r-ḍ 128
4.1 Ṭ-r-ʾ 129
4.1.1 TheTermṭāriʾinEarlyJuristicWorks 129
4.1.2 IbnJinnīandIbnal-ʾAnbārī’sUsesoftheTermṭāriʾ 131
4.1.3 TheTermṭāriʾinŠarḥal-Kāfiya 133
4.2 ʿ-r-ḍ 147
4.2.1 TheTermʿaraḍinPhilosophyandTheology 147
4.2.2 TermsDerivedfromtheRootʿ-r-ḍinŠarḥal-Kāfiya 148
viii contents
4.3 AnExampleofaComplexDiscussionCombiningTermsfromBoth
Groups 161
5 TermsRelatedtotheForm-MeaningRelation 169
5.1 Maʿnā 170
5.1.1 MaʿnāasAbstractMeaning 171
5.1.2 Maʿnāasa(Non-)existentMeaningofanElement 172
5.1.3 MaʿnāasaComponentofMeaning 174
5.1.4 MaʿnāasFunctionalMeaning 177
5.1.5 MaʿnāasaMeaningofUnitsLarger/SmallerthanaSingle
Word 180
5.2 TermsDerivedfromtheRootd-l-l 181
5.2.1 Dalāla/madlūlversusmaʿnā 182
5.2.2 DalālaversusDenotation 186
5.2.3 DalālaversusDictionaryMeaning 187
5.2.4 TheTermsdalāla/madlūlinDiscussionsonMeta-linguistic
Usages 188
5.2.5 Typesof dalāla 190
5.3 Musammā 213
5.4 Maḍmūn 217
5.4.1 MaḍmūnastheContentofaClause 217
5.4.2 MaḍmūnasContentofaVerb 222
5.4.3 MaḍmūnasContentofaNominalPredicate 225
5.4.4 MaḍmūnasaContentofObjects 229
5.4.5 OtherUsesoftheTermmaḍmūnas‘Content’ 230
5.5 TheVerbwaqaʿaʿalāandItsDerivatives 234
SummaryandConclusions 240
BibliographicalReferences 247
IndexofQurʾānicQuotations 259
IndexofNames 260
IndexofTerms 261
Acknowledgements
ThisbookispartiallybasedonmyPh.D.dissertation,writtenduringtheyears
2012–2016atTelAvivUniversity.MydeepestgratitudegoestoProf.YishaiPeled,
whowasmyM.A.andPh.D.supervisor.HetaughtmetoreadArabgrammari-
ansandfosteredmyinitialideas;hehadconfidenceinmeandbelievedthatI
couldbecomeascholarlongbeforeIstartedtobelieveinthatmyself.
IamgratefultotheIsraeliCouncilforHigherEducationforitssupportdur-
ing my Ph.D. studies through a Lev-Zion Fellowship, and to the Department
ofArabicandIslamicStudiesandtheCultureSchoolatTelAvivUniversity—
currentlyheadedbyProf.UriyaShavitandProf.MicheleKahan—forproviding
mewiththecrucialfundsneededtocompletethisbook.Ithankthedepart-
mentmembersfortheirkeeninterestinmyprogress,andwouldliketopartic-
ularlymentionProf.NasirBasal,mysecondmentor,whoseadvicehelpedme
inmakingvariouschoicesinmyresearchandwhowasalwaysavailablewith
suggestionsandguidanceinthemomentofneed,andDrAhmadIghbariyah,
whointroducedmeintothefieldofIslamicphilosophy.
TworeadersofmyPh.D.dissertation,Prof.AlexanderBorgandProf.Simon
Hopkins,madevarioussuggestionsthatweretakenintoaccountinthisbook.
Thecommentsofthreeanonymousreadersofthefirstmanuscriptofthisbook
ledtomanyadditionalimprovements.Iamdeeplyindebtedtoallthereview-
ers.
As to the technical side of this book’s preparation, I gratefully acknow-
ledgetheassistanceofMrMichaelGuggenheimer,whometiculouslyreadmy
manuscriptandhelpedtoimproveitsstyle.Anditwasagreatpleasuretowork
withMrMaartenFrieswijkofBrillPublishers,whowasenthusiasticaboutmy
projectfromtheoutset,andhandleditwithexemplaryefficiency.
Finally,mypersonalthanksgotomymotherInnawhotaughtmetoappre-
ciatewordsandbooks,andtomyhusbandOriwhocelebratesmysuccessesas
hisownandconsolesmeinmyfailures.Iamtrulyfortunatetohavehimbymy
side.