Basics of Arabic grammar

The book / The Foundations of Arabic Grammar, by the author / Mahmoud Ahmed Nahla, presents an foundational study of the methodology of Arabic grammar and its scientific bases. The book in the introductory preface reviews the relationship between the principles of jurisprudence and the principles of grammar. Then it discusses the four fundamental roots on which grammar is based: the transmission from its sources (the Holy Quran, the Prophetic Hadith, and the speech of Arabs), consensus (for narrators, Arabs, and grammarians), analogy (inductive and formal), and continuity. It concludes with a discussion of cases of conflict between these principles, followed by a list of sources and references.