• Parts: 1
• Subject: Arabic Language and Literature
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First
• Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
• Number of Pages: 198
• Weight: 325 g
• Language: Arabic
• Author: Mohamed Moatassem
• Publisher: Fadaat Publishing House

Nahw (Arabic grammar), according to Ibn Jinni in his book "Al-Khasa'is": "is to follow the way of the Arabs in their speech, from declension and otherwise; such as dualization, pluralization, diminution, irregular plurals, annexation, attribution, composition, and so on; so that one who is not a native speaker of Arabic may join its people in eloquence, and speak it even if not one of them; and if some of them deviate from it, they are brought back to it. It is originally a common verbal noun, like saying 'I intended an intention,' then it became specific to this field of knowledge" (p. 34).

From this, it is understood that "Nahw" is a science dedicated to establishing the rules that govern the speech of the Arabs (the Arabic language) to prevent grammatical errors by later Arabs and by non-native speakers. It is a science for teaching non-Arabs the Arabic language to improve their pronunciation and communication with its native speakers, thereby enabling access to their culture and knowledge stored in books. If a speaker deviates from these rules, they are corrected based on them.

Nahw is a linguistic science from which numerous rules have branched, which grammarians have grouped into homogenous sets or linguistic units, such as the accusatives which include various types of objects (direct, for reason, of accompaniment, of place/time), the vocative, the noun from which a preposition is omitted, the circumstantial adverb, the specifier, and the specified term; as well as the nominatives, appositives, and other chapters.