ابنُ شُقِيْر النحويُّ (ت317هـ)

Abstract

Studying the pioneers of Arabic grammarians can be considered as linguistic grounding. One of the famous names was Abu Bakr Ibn Choucair who was the founder of the Baghdad school that combined the Kufi and Basra schools with Ibn Kisan (d. 299 AH) and Ibn al-Khayat (d.320 AH). Sometimes the Kufi tendency is prominent and sometimes the Baghdad tendency is. Moreover, Ibn Choucair was not much engaged in composing books on grammatical issues and discussions. Due to his prominent status in Arabic language, I was motivated to study him.

We observe that he was one of the narrators of Hadith and influenced by both poets and grammarians. His model was ambivalent in that he sometimes agrees with the Kufi grammarians and sometimes with the Basra ones. This ambivalence is a characteristic feature of Bagdad grammar School.