Mughni al-Arib fi Tahzib Mughni al-Labib an Kotob al-A’ārib: A Review

One way to optimize teaching sciences is to update their texts. In the Seminary School, syntax is taught during the first three years. The production of new syntax textbooks has been underway for some years. Since the production of new texts takes a long time, editing the available books has been on the agenda. Among these books is Mughni al-Adib which has been taught in the third year of the Seminary School. Prior to this book, Mughni al-Labib had been taught for many years; however, due to certain reasons, this book was content edited by some of the lecturers of the Seminary School in 1370, and published under the title of Mughni al-Adib. In 1397, Mughni al-Adib was also edited and published under the title of Mughni al-Arib. Since Mughni al-Arib is being taught in the third year of the new system of the Seminary School, it is necessary to criticize it. This article is going to criticize the introduction and the content of the book. The most important criticism is that Mughni al-Adib has been edited and changed into Mughni al-Arib while its teaching objectives have not yet been clarified by the Seminary School department of education for the teachers and the students. Basically, the students do not know about the purpose or purposes of learning this book. They do not know why they should only study the first and the fourth chapter out of the 8 chapters. They do not know why they need to learn Al-Bahjat al-Marziat before learning this book? They do not know what skills they will acquire in the knowledge of syntax through studying Mughni al-Adib which they have not achieved through studying Al-Bahjat al-Marziat. Why Mughni al-Adib should change to Mughni al-Arib while these questions are left unanswered? The present article come to this conclusion that teaching this new book should be reconsidered.