Qatr-al-Nada
Ibn Hisham al-Ansari (d. 708/1309 – 761/1360) was an Egyptian grammarian whose renown spread over the Muslim world even during his lifetime. Qatr al-Nada is the first in the progressive sequence of his four most famous books in Arabic grammar; it is followed by Shudhur al-Dhahab, Awdah al-Masalik and Mughni al-Labib respectively. The Qatr, considered an intermediate level text, provides more detail than the Ajurrumiyya and also discusses issues that do not appear in the latter. In this series of 40 lessons (breakdown of topics given below), in this course the entire matn is read, the contents are discussed, and some of the shawahid (proof-texts, usually lines of poetry can be memorized to illustrate grammatical usage. Ibn
Hisham's commentary on the Qatr may be useful to have as a reference, but we will not be reading it in full in the course. Each lesson is projected to be one hour long.
Quizzes:
TBD
Lessons:
1 Introduction Definitions of nahw and kalima Signs of the ism
2 Mu`rab and mabni nouns qabl and ba`d
3 Madi and amr verbs Ism al-fi`l
4 Mudari` verbs in mabni state
5 Harf Singular nouns Broken plurals The Six Nouns
6 Duals and sound masculine plurals
7 Sound feminine plurals The Five Verbs Implicit i`rab
8 Signs of i`rab, Nasb of the mudari`
9 Suppression of an
10 Jazm
11 Definiteness and indefiniteness
12 Proper nouns
13 Demonstratives and relative pronouns
14 Definiteness with definite article and idafa
15 Nominal sentence
16 Nominal sentence (continued)
17 Kana and sisters
18 Sisters of laysa Inna and sisters
19 Inna and sisters (continued) Categorical negation
20 Categorical negation (continued) Zanna and sisters
21 Fa`il
22 Fa`il (continued) Na'ib al-Fa`il
23 Ishtighal
24 Tanazu`
25 Maf`ul bihi Vocative (munada)
26 Vocative (munada) (continued)
27 Vocative (munada) (continued) Maf`ul Mutlaq
28 Maf`ul lahu Maf`ul fihi Maf`ul ma`ahu
29 Hal
30 Tamyiz
31 Mustathna
32 Jarr
34 Nouns with Verbal Force (continued)
35 Nouns with Verbal Force (continued)
36 The Followers (Tawabi`) Adjectives
37 Emphasis (Tawkid)
38 `Atf Badal
39 Numbers Diptotes (mamnu` min al-sarf)
40 Amazement (ta`ajjub) Stops Hamzat al-Wasl