Al-Muẓhir fīʿulūm al-lughah wa anwāʿhā

…his most important philological work, Al-Muẓhir fī ʿulūm al-lughah wa anwāʿihā (“The Luminous Work Concerning the Sciences of Language and its Subfields”), a linguistic encyclopaedia covering such topics as the history of the Arabic language, phonetics, semantics, and morphology. It was largely derived from the works of two predecessors, Ibn…

…provided the evaluative basis for Al-Muzhir fī ʿulūm al-lughah wa anwāʿihā (“The Luminous Work Concerning the Sciences of Language and Its Subfields”), a huge work of compilation by the 15th-century Egyptian polymath Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī, in which he examined every conceivable aspect of the compositional process, starting at the level…