Linguistic criticism in the book tahtheeb Islah AL – Log by – Tabrizi

Abstract

Al-Khatib Al-Tabrizi is a scholar of the language, and one of the distinguished imams of Arabic. He has many commentaries on various books and collections of great importance, including his commentary on the book Islah Al-Logic by Ibn Al-Sakit, which he called Al-Tahtheeb because he deleted the duplicates, corrected some errors, and added some that needed to be added, and for this reason He called it a refinement, not an explanation, and it is one of the important books whose virtue cannot be denied. It was a code of language and an important source in the times.When explaining the book, Al-Tabrizi resorted to language at all its levels and in all its phases: eloquent and colloquial, prose and poetry, modern and ancient, and he based his book on the basis of the grammatical principles of hearing and analogy, which played an important role in his book despite the widening of his circle of listening and its extension to his era, so he referred to Hearing is used in certain words that indicate hearing, such as (I heard), while analogy is indicated in other words, such as (taken from), and the reader of his book will undoubtedly find the dominance of the listening element over analogy in the field of linguistic research according to Al-Tabrizi. According to Al-Tabrizi, the language was on levels, including the high language, and he did not attribute it to a specific tribe, but rather he only called it high or the people of high, and among them was the colloquial language.    Al-Tabrizi used to stand in front of every word in the language that he found in the book “Islah al-Logic” and deal with it with explanation, analysis, study and interpretation. He was also interested in explaining the poetic line, mentioning the reason for composing the poetic line, taking the linguistic word with an explanation of its language, mentioning its source, the singular plurals of it, the singular plurals of it, the masculine and feminine, as well. About interpreting the verse with all possible and appropriate interpretations in the absence of specific evidence for a specific meaning, while paying attention to the semantic aspects of the word and mentioning the purpose of the poetic poem and the reason for saying it before proceeding to interpret and explain it.