Al-khalīl Ibn Aħmad: a pioneering linguist

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the great role played by early Muslim scholars in the field of linguistics. The aim here is to refute the claim that Muslims did not contribute to this field. In fact, there were many important linguistic studies that can be classified as landmarks in linguistic thought. In this paper, I focus on a pioneering scholar, Al-khalīl Ibn Aħmad, who was renowned as the founder of the scientific study of poetic metre and musicology in the Arabic language and whose work was the basis of prosody in the Persian, Turkish, and Urdu languages