Arabic Grammar in Its Formative Age: Kitāb Al-'ayn and Its Attribution to H̬alīl B. Aḥmad: Kitab Al-Ayn and Its Attribution to ... IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS) - Tapa dura

'...Talmon should be commended for undertaking this venture.' Monique Bernards, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1999. 'It is a fitting addition to Brill's excellent Semitic languages and linguistics series edited by T. Muraoka and C.H.M. Versteegh...This tome is an impressive synthesis utilizing a solid bibliography of primany and secondary sources.' Alan S. Kaye. 'Talmon's monograph offers the reader an impressive stock of information supported by an uncommonly rich amount of sources.' Ladislav Drozdik, Asian and African Studies, 2000.

This volume establishes the importance of the large grammatical material found in the earliest Arabic dictionary, a unique contemporary of Sibawaihi's Kitab (late 8th century). Aspects of the early Arabic grammatical tradition and the medieval adab literature depicting exemplary heroes of the past are involved in this study of authenticity of the source and its attribution.