Morphological Studies in Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al- Andalusi's (d. 688 AH) Summary of the Rules of Arabic Grammar

The thesis, entitled (Morphological Studies in the Book of Al-Mulakhkhas in Establishing the Rules of Arabic) by Ibn Abi Al-Rabi’ Al-Andalusi, d. 688 AH, deals in this study with the book of a great scholar from the scholars of Andalusia, whom scholars agreed was the imam of grammar in his time; Because of his great stature in the Arabic language, I began with an introduction comprising three main points: The first: his personal biography, in which I discussed his nickname, name, title, lineage, birth, upbringing, and death. The second point: his scholarly biography, in which I discussed his culture, scholarly standing, teachers, students, and works. The third point: I gave a general description of the book "Al-Mulakhkhas". The first chapter, entitled "The Methodology of Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Andalusi and His Sources," explains his approach to presenting his morphological material. It comprises two sections. In the first, I present Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Andalusi's methods of presenting his morphological material, and in the second, I present Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Andalusi's sources of prominent figures and books, arranged according to the date of their authors' deaths. Since the first chapter serves as the initial starting point for understanding his scientific methodology—how he reasoned, deduced rulings, and presented his morphological material—a second chapter was produced to explore the principles and foundations upon which the author built his morphological material. This second chapter, titled "The Evidences of the Art of Grammar According to Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Andalusi," comprises five sections: the first section, "Attribution," represented by evidence from the Holy Quran, variant readings, Hadith, poetry, and prose; the second section, "Analogy"; and the third section, "The Morphological Reason," which discusses the reasons Ibn Abi al-Rabi' used to justify his issues. The fourth topic is morphology; the seventh topic is consensus. The second topic is continuity of the existing state; and the third topic is consensus. As for the third chapter, it came under the title: Morphological Effort in Ibn Abi al-Rabi’ al-Andalusi, and in it I explained the morphological effort of a scholar whose work testifies to the breadth of his knowledge and his extensive expertise in the field of morphology. It included seven topics in which Ibn Abi al-Rabi’ had a clear position, discussing, analyzing, and favoring what he approved and rejecting what he did not approve of. These are: the first topic: the morphological scale, the second topic: the conjugation of nouns, the third topic: the conjugation of verbs, the fourth topic: verbal nouns, the fifth topic: diminutives, the sixth topic: nisba (attributive adjectives), and the seventh topic: elision. The fourth chapter, entitled "The Scholarly Personality of Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Andalusi," comprised five sections: the first section, his unique opinions; the second section, his stance on matters of morphological disagreement; the third section, his influence and impact, which included two subsections: his influence by scholars and his influence on later scholars; the fourth section, his ability to argue and debate; and the fifth section, criticisms of Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Andalusi, which included two subsections: scholars' criticisms of Ibn Abi al-Rabi' al-Andalusi and the researcher's own criticisms. I concluded with a summary of the most important findings I reached in this research.