Grammar
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
grammar · النحو · al-naḥw · inflection · the art of grammar · الاعراب · الكلمة · صناعة النحو
in the texts
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The science of correct speech, whose relation to expressions is made the exact analogue of logic's relation to meanings, with the two arts differing in what each considers essentially and what accidentally.
and just as grammar sets the tongue straight towards rightness of speech and furnishes the canons by which inflection is known, so logic sets the mind straight towards rightness of meanings and furnishes the canons by which the realities are known.
and the nearest likeness to it that I find among the arts are prosody (ʻarūḍ) and grammar (naḥw), for each one of the two resembles logic in some respect.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Naḥw, Arabic grammar, named with kalām as one of the verbal disciplines that ʻAbduh says he has turned away from in favour of the sciences of realities.
one who has turned away from grammar (*naḥw*), theology (*kalām*) and the word;
Law in a Free State
The school subject of grammar, analyzed as a mixture of logic and psychology and illustrated by a schoolroom dialogue.
but this may be confidently affirmed, that it is perfectly impossible to understand grammar before logic.