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Since the Arabs didn't encourage non-Arabs to learn their language so that only Arabs can take high positions in the government, he was the first non-Arab to write on Arabic grammar and therefore the first one to explain the Arabic grammar from a non-Arab perspective. He greatly helped to spread the Arabic language in the Middle East.

The name Sibawayh is derived from the Persian words سیب-بو-یه
(''Sib-bu-yeh'') meaning "the one with an apple's scent".
Sibawayh died in Shiraz (also in the Fars province of Iran) around 793 AD .


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REFERENCES

  • De Sacy, Silvestre . ''Anthologie grammaticale arabe''. Paris 1829.

  • Derenbourg, H. (ed.) ''Le livre de Sibawaihi''. 2 vols. Paris 1881-1889. New York: Hildesheim 1970 .

  • Jahn, Gustav. ''Sībawaihis Buch über die Grammatik übersetzt und erklärt''. Berlin 1895-1900. Hildesheim 1969 .

  • Schaade, A. ''Sībawaihi’s Lautlehre''. Leiden 1911.

  • ʕAbd al-Salām Hārūn, M. (ed.) ''Kitāb Sibawayhi''. 5 vols. Cairo 1966-1977.

  • Owens, J. ''The Foundations of Grammar: An introduction to Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory''. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company 1988. ISBN 9027245282.

  • Al-Nassir, A.A. ''Sibawayh the Phonologist''.London and New York: Keegan Paul International 1993. ISBN 0710303564.

  • Edzard, L. "Sibawayhi's Observations on Assimilatory Processes and Re-Syllabification in the Light of Optimality Theory", in: ''Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies'', vol. 3 (2000), pp. 48-65. ( PDF version ; HTML version ; HTML Unicode version )

  • Carter, M.G. ''Sibawayhi''. London and New York: I.B. Tauris 2004. ISBN 1850436711.



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