A Critical Edition of the Grammatical Treatise

The book consists of a critical edition and the analysis of an early treatise in the field of Arabic grammar, based on two manuscripts located in England and Egypt. The work’s title is Mīzān al-ʿarabiyya which literally means ‘the balance, or scales, of Arabic.’ It is a pedagogical work dedicated to Arabic grammar and written by the famous Arabic grammarian Ibn al-ʾAnbārī (died 577/1181) who is probably best known for his al-ʾInṣāf fī masāʾil al-ḫilāf bayn al-naḥwiyyīn al-baṣriyyīn wa-l-kūfiyyīn, a collection of Streitfragen (controversial issues) attributed to the Baṣran and Kūfan grammarians.