The Qur'anic Evidence: between School Disagreement and Grammatical Adherence

Abstract

Co The manifestations of reasoning within the Arabic grammatical system are diverse, and their forms are distributed according to the differing approaches adopted by grammarians. Some were agreed upon, and others were the subject of disagreement. In both cases, reasoning constitutes the foundation of grammatical argumentation, working toward establishing the rule and reinforcing the evidence for it. Within this framework, samāʿ (oral transmission/audition) was one of the fundamental principles of reasoning in Arabic, to which grammarians resorted when deducing rules and constructing arguments. They devoted great attention and careful study to it as a primary criterion in the search for these rules. From this arose the idea for the present research, which sheds light on the reality of poetic and Qur'anic evidence as it stands between two poles: grammatical disagreement on one hand, and grammarians' adherence to it on the other.