The College of Basic Education at the University of Mosul discussed a Master’s thesis entitled “Al-Zajjaj’s Grammatical Views in Al-Wahidi’s Al-Tafsir Al-Basit.”

The thesis, submitted by Alaa Jassim Mohammed Omar from the Department of Arabic Language, aimed to collect Al-Zajjaj’s grammatical opinions mentioned in Al-Wahidi’s Al-Tafsir Al-Basit, examine them through a descriptive and analytical approach, demonstrate their impact on interpreting Qur’anic meanings, and discuss and evaluate the different viewpoints.

The thesis addressed several topics, including: an introduction to Al-Zajjaj, an introduction to Al-Wahidi, Al-Zajjaj’s views as presented by Al-Wahidi, and Al-Zajjaj’s opinions concerning nouns, verbs, and particles.

The study reached several findings, the most significant of which was Al-Wahidi’s extensive reliance on Al-Zajjaj’s grammatical opinions. He drew heavily upon Al-Zajjaj’s book The Meanings of the Qur’an and Its Grammatical Analysis and benefited greatly from it. Regarding his method of presenting Al-Zajjaj’s views, Al-Wahidi often compared them with those of other linguists, particularly Al-Farra’, highlighting areas of agreement and disagreement. Al-Zajjaj belonged to the Basran school and strongly supported its approach, whereas Al-Farra’ belonged to the Kufan school. Nevertheless, Al-Zajjaj followed and agreed with Al-Farra’ on certain issues, including the use of demonstrative pronouns as relative pronouns and the employment of some grammatical terms such as al-jahd (negation). Al-Wahidi also compared Al-Zajjaj’s opinions with those of Abu Ali Al-Farisi, who frequently objected to and disagreed with them, often describing them as erroneous.

The examination committee was chaired by Professor Dr. Amer Bahira Samir.

The committee members were:

• Professor Dr. Saad Mohammed Ahmed
• Professor Dr. Zahraa Saad Al-Din Sheet
• Assistant Professor Dr. Salwa Younis Khudair, who also served as the thesis supervisor.

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