Provided by brother Ali Godil. Hidayah
Assalamu ‘Alaikum, Recently, the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs of the State of Qatar has published, for the first time on the modern press, the commentary on Imam al-Bukhari’s Sahih by Imam Siraj-ud-Din ibn al-Mulaqqin ash-Shafi’i (723 – 804 AH) in 36 volumes. The author, better known as Ibn al-Mulaqqin (though he personally didn’t … Continue reading
I must confess that due to a number of preoccupations we have not been able to post anything in a while. That said, I would like to put the readers of this blog at ease and assure them that regular posting should soon resume, in sha Allah. In order to facilitate the uploading process, not … Continue reading
We mentioned the revised form of Hidayat al-Nahw in a previous post. Here we decided to provide the .doc form of this revised edition, entitled Al-Hidayah fi ‘l-Nahw. اَلْـهِـدَايَـةِ فِـي الـنَّـحْوِ [At the request of a reader, we are posting a .pdf form of the book below] اَلْـهِـدَايَـةِ فِـي الـنَّـحْوِ
Attached is the now widely-used English book of Arabic morphology, compiled by Shaykh Ebrahim Muhammad of Camperdown, South Africa. It is used as the main text for Sarf in many madrasahs today. The book has been published by ZamZam Publishers in Karachi, albeit with poor printing. The margins are missing and the pages/binding are small … Continue reading
While teaching Hidayat al-Nahw this last year, I chose to stick to the actual book as the text and not the Irani, revamped version entitled Al-Hidayah fi ‘l-Nahw which basically simplifies the text in certain places, adds practice questions and summaries, and inserts neat little charts for visualizing divisions and categories. Because al-Hidayah fi ‘l-Nahw … Continue reading
The following link was provided by Shaykh Muhammad Badat and Shaykh Ibrahim Amin. It is a massive collection of pdfs of Islamic books on all the Islamic sciences. The fiqh section alone contains over 960 books. http://www.mosndy.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=11
For students of Arabic who enjoy the subtle differences between apparent synonyms, Imam Tha’alabi’s Fiqh al-Lughah and Asrar al-’Arabiyyah are must-reads. You can download the book, both published together by Al-Maktabah al-’Asriyyah and edited by Yasin al-Ayyubi, at the following link: Fiqh al-Lughah wa Asrar al-’Arabiyyah
Please see the following short work on the history of Balaghah, entitled appropriately al-Mujaz fi Tarikh al-Balaghah. Although the book is not as well-organized as others on the history of Arabic literature, it is short and concentrates on the Balaghah aspect of Arabic literature. The work tends to emphasize certain points of the history of … Continue reading
Recently, a number of students who study Arabic syntax with me asked for my recommendation on a good book that focused on the i’rab of the Qur’an (grammatical analysis of each ayah). While I admitted that I was not familiar with all the new works that have been published recently on the topic, and having … Continue reading
