Al-Wasīlah al-adabiyyah ilā al-ʿulūm al-ʿArabiyyah
work by Marṣafī
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importance in Arabic literature
- In Arabic literature: Compilations and manuals
…by the late 19th-century work Al-Wasīlah al-adabiyyah ilā al-ʿulūm al-ʿArabiyyah (“The Literary Method for the Arabic Sciences”), in which the Egyptian scholar Ḥusayn al-Marṣafī returned to the classical heritage (and particularly to al-ʿAskarī’s Kitāb al-ṣināʿatayn) in order to provide a study of prosody, the syntactic function of words, and the…
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