Al-Baydawī’s (d. 685AH) Morphological Views in al-Bahr al-Madid by Ibn Ajiba al-Hasani (d. 1224 AH)
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
This research aims to trace morphological meaning in the works of al-Baydawi as presented in al-Bahr al-Madīd by Ibn ʿAjība. He sometimes attributes al-Baydawi's views explicitly by name and at other times cites them without attribution. Al-Baydawi is distinguished by his grounding of morphological meanings and their connection to lexical semantics, while maintaining conciseness without compromising clarity.
The study documents most of the morphological forms that al-Baydawi focused on, particularly those related to intensification, verbal nouns, and forms such as istafʿala, fāʿala, and mafʿūl. It also reveals al-Baydawi’s reliance on earlier exegetes, notably al-Zamakhsharī and al-Rāzī, from whom he selectively adopted the most plausible interpretations, all while preserving precision and clarity. The study concludes that al-Baydāwī offered eloquent and succinct insights into morphological meanings, marked by caution and deliberation in his exegesis, reflecting his deep understanding of the Arabic language and his reverence for the sanctity of the Qur’anic text.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
References
First: Scientific Books
-Ibn al-‘Imād al-Hanbalī, ʿAbd al-Hayy ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-ʿAkkarī al-Hanbalī, Abū al-Falāh (d. 1089 AH), Shadharāt al-Dhahab fī Akhbār man Dhahab, Ed. Mahmūd al-Arnāʾūṭ (d. 1438 AH), hadīth verification: ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Arnāʾūṭ (d. 1425 AH), Dār Ibn Kathīr, Damascus–Beirut, 1st ed., 1406 AH / 1986 CE.
- Ibn Jinnī, Abū al-Fath ʿUthmān ibn Jinnī (d. 392 AH), Al-Muhtasib fī Tabiyīn Wujūh Shawādh al-Qirāʾāt wa al-ʾIdāh ʿanhā, Eds. ʿAlī al-Najdī Nāṣif, ʿAbd al-Halīm al-Najjār, ʿAbd al-Fattāh Shalabī, Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Cairo, 1994 CE.
- Ibn Sulaymān al-Yāfiʿī, Abū Muhammad ʿAfīf al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Asʿad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Yāfiʿī (d. 768 AH), Mirʾāt al-Jinān wa ʿIbrat al-Yaqẓān, Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, Beirut, 1st ed., 1417 AH / 1997 CE.
- Ibn Kathīr, Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn Kathīr (701–774 AH), Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah, Dār Ibn Kathīr, Damascus–Beirut, 6th ed., 1442 AH / 2021 CE.
- Abū Hayyān, Muhammad ibn Yūsuf al-Andalusī (d. 745 AH), Al-Bahr al-Muhīṭ fī al-Tafsīr, Ed. Ṣidqī Muhammad Jamīl, Dār al-Fikr, Beirut, 1420 AH.
- Al-Akhfash al-Awsaṭ, Saʿīd ibn Masʿadah (d. 215 AH), Maʿānī al-Qurʾān, Ed. Hudā Mahmūd Qarāʿah, Maktabat al-Khānijī, 1st ed., Cairo, 1990 CE.
- Al-Astarābādhī, Radī al-Dīn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (d. 686 AH), Sharh Shāfiyat Ibn al-Hājib with commentary by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī (d. 1093 AH), Eds. Muhammad Nūr al-Hasan, Muhammad al-Zafzāf, Muhammad Muhyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Hamīd, Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, Beirut, 1982 CE.
- Ibn Manẓūr, Muhammad ibn Mukarram ibn ʿAlī, Abū al-Fadl, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Anṣārī al-Ruwayfiʿī al-ʿAfrīqī (d. 711 AH), Lisān al-ʿArab, Eds. ʿAbd Allāh ʿAlī al-Kabīr, Muhammad Ahmad Hasballāh, Dār Ṣādir, Beirut, 3rd ed., 1414 AH.
- Al-Bābānī, Ismāʿīl Bāshā ibn Muhammad Amīn ibn Mīr Salīm al-Bābānī, originally Baghdādī (d. 1339 AH), Hadiyyat al-ʿĀrifīn fī Asmāʾ al-Muʾallifīn wa Āthār al-Muṣannifīn, Maʿrif Press, Istanbul, 1951–1955 CE.
- Al-Baghawī, Abū Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Masʿūd (d. 510 AH), Maʿālim al-Tanzīl (also known as Tafsīr al-Baghawī), Ed. ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Mahdī, Dār Ihyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut, 1st ed., 1420 AH.
- Al-Baydāwī, Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (d. 685 AH), Anwār al-Tanzīl wa Asrār al-Taʾwīl (known as Tafsīr al-Baydāwī), Eds. Mahmūd Ṣubhī Hallāq, Mahmūd Ahmad al-Aṭrash, Dār al-Rashīd, Damascus / Dār al-ʾĪmān, Beirut, 1st ed., 2000 CE.
- Al-Thaʿlabī, Abū Ishāq Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrāhīm (d. 427 AH), Al-Kashf wa al-Bayān ʿan Tafsīr al-Qurʾān, Ed. Imām Abū Muhammad Ibn ʿĀshūr, Rev. Naẓīr al-Sāʿidī, Dār Ihyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut, 1st ed., 1422 AH / 2002 CE.
- Al-Jawzī, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn ʿAlī (d. 597 AH), Zād al-Masīr fī ʿIlm al-Tafsīr, Ed. ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Mahdī, Dār al-Kitāb al-ʿArabī, Beirut, 1st ed., 1422 AH.
- Hājjī Khalīfah, Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd Allāh (d. 1067 AH), also known as Kātib Chalabī, Kashf al-Ẓunūn ʿan Asāmī al-Kutub wa al-Funūn, Istanbul–al-Muʿallim, n.d.
- Al-Hamawī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Yāqūt ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Rūmī al-Hamawī (d. 626 AH), Muʿjam al-Buldān, Dār Ṣādir, Beirut, 2nd ed., 1995 CE.
- Al-Khafājī, Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿUmar (d. 1069 AH), Hāshiyat al-Shihāb ʿalā Tafsīr al-Baydāwī, also titled ʿInāyat al-Qādī wa Kifāyat al-Rādī, Dār Ṣādir, Beirut, n.d.
- Al-Rāzī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Fakhr al-Dīn Muhammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Hasan (d. 606 AH), Mafātīh al-Ghayb (also known as al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr), Dār Ihyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut, 3rd ed., 1420 AH.
- Al-Zajjāj, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm ibn al-Sarī ibn Sahl (d. 311 AH), Maʿānī al-Qurʾān wa ʾIʿrābuhu, Ed. ʿAbd al-Jalīl ʿAbduh Shalabī, ʿĀlam al-Kutub, 1st ed., Beirut, 1988 CE.
- Al-Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī (d. 771 AH), Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah al-Kubrā, Eds. Dr. Mahmūd Muhammad al-Ṭanāhī, Dr. ʿAbd al-Fattāh Muhammad al-Hulū, Hajr Publishing, 2nd ed., 1413 AH.
-Al-Suyūṭī, ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn Abī Bakr, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (d. 911 AH), Bughyat al-Wuʿāt fī Ṭabaqāt al-Lughawiyyīn wa al-Nahwiyyīn, Ed. Muhammad Abū al-Fadl Ibrāhīm (d. 1401 AH), al-Maktabah al-ʿAṣriyyah, Lebanon/Sidon, 1431 AH.
- Al-Shahbī al-Dimashqī, Abū Bakr ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿUmar al-Asadī, Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Qādī Shuhbah (d. 851 AH), Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah, Ed. Dr. ʿAbd al-ʿAlīm Khān, ʿĀlam al-Kutub, Beirut, 1st ed., 1407 AH.
Shawqī Abū Khalīl, Atlas of the Islamic World Countries, Dār al-Fikr, 2020 CE29-
-Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Hanbalī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAbd al-Haqq, Ibn Shamāʾil al-Qaṭīʿī al-Baghdādī (d. 739 AH), Marāṣid al-Iṭṭilāʿ ʿalā Asmāʾ al-Amkinah wa al-Biqāʿ, Dār al-Jīl, Beirut, 1st ed., 1412 AH.
- Muhammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, Rawdāt al-Jannāt, Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah
,nd
Second: Theses and Dissertations
-Sharīfah Ahmad al-Mālikī, Supervisor: Ibtisām Ahmad Jamāl, Al-Baydāwī and His Doctrinal Views: A Study and Critique Based on His Tafsīr, Umm al-Qurā University, Master’s Thesis.
-Yūsuf Ahmad ʿAlī, Al-Baydāwī and His Method in Tafsīr, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Umm al-Qurā University, Ph.D. Dissertation.
Journal Articles:
-Al-Naʿīmī, Fayhāʾ Qahṭān Mamdūh (Assistant Professor). "Morphological Irregularities in al-Maʿzūfah by Ibn Sīda (458 AH)." Tikrit University Journal for Humanities, vol. 29, no. 9, 2022, pp. 60–86.
-Al-Hāshimāwī, Madhhūr Mahmūd (Assistant Professor). "The Morphological Roots of the Word Hazm in the Arabic Lexicon." Tikrit University Journal for Humanities, vol. 30, 11, 2023, pp. 29–46.