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Book/Printed Material Grammatical Investigations.

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Title

  • Grammatical Investigations.

Summary

  • This clearly written manuscript, dated 1857, is a work on grammatical questions by Gabriel Germanus, or Jirmānūs, Farḥāt (circa 1670--1732), metropolitan of Aleppo and founder of the Lebanese Maronite Order. Maronite synod documents of the 16th century reflect a poor standard of Arabic and are often interspersed with Syriac words. Metropolitan Farḥāt was a writer of correct and elegant Arabic and a forerunner of the Maronite initiative in the 19th century Arabic revival. The work was written in 1705 and then printed in 1836 at the American Protestant press in Malta, although it also continued to be copied by hand. It is divided into buḥūt (singular baḥt), meaning examinations, and maṭālib (singular maṭlab), meaning problems. Each problem is a short paragraph on a particular grammatical topic. The work has been very popular, as attested by the great number of extant manuscripts, both in Eastern and European collections.

Names

  • Farḥāt, Jirmānūs, 1670 or 1671-1732 or 1733 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1857.

Headings

  • -  Lebanon--Al-Biqāʻ--Baʻlabakk
  • -  1705
  • -  Arabic language
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Grammar

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 147 pages ; 16.5 x 23 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Holy Spirit University of Kaslik.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Lebanese Maronite Order

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667209

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Farḥāt, Jirmānūs, 1670 Or Or 1733 Author. Grammatical Investigations. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1857] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021667209/.

APA citation style:

Farḥāt, J. (1857) Grammatical Investigations. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021667209/.

MLA citation style:

Farḥāt, Jirmānūs, 1670 Or Or 1733 Author. Grammatical Investigations. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1857] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021667209/>.