A study of the "Al-Fawaed-Uz-Ziyaiya" by Abdar-Rahman Jami

Al-Fawaed-Uz-Ziya''iya «is a great book written by the Abdar-Rahmān Jāmī، the Iranian poet of the fifteenth century. Jāmī has written this book as an explanation to the Al-kafiya of Ibnal-Hajib. This is one of the classical works written on the Arabic grammar or Nahw. This book has been called» Al-Fawaed-Uz-Ziya''iya«since Jāmī has written it for his son، Ziya-od-Din Yusuf. Jāmī had great knowledge in Arabic language and especially in the Nahv. He has taken an impartial view in the explanation of the book. He has not only been reciting the grammarians'' viewpoints but also he has expressed his own opinion in grammar rules. He has never refused Ibnal-Hajib’s opinions straightly، but he has tried to present the other opposite grammarians'' viewpoints in this regard. This paper addresses and analyzes Jāmī’s viewpoints in this book and come to this conclusion that Jāmī was among the followers of the al-Basrah school in Nahw.