| Author | Sidi Boushaki |
|---|---|
| Original title | نظم الزواوي |
| Country | Algeria |
| Language | Arabic |
| Subject | Arabic grammar, Expressing the Arabic grammar rules |
| Genre | Poem |
| Pages | 150 verses |
| OCLC | 4769980833 |
| Text | Poem of Sidi Boushaki at Wikisource |
The Poem of Sidi Boushaki (Arabic: أرجوزة سيدي بوسحاقي) is a poem of arabic grammar written by the theologian and linguist Sidi Boushaki (1394-1453).[1][2][3][4][5]
He is Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin Fayed al-Zawawi, an exeget of Quran, jurist and linguist, born in the Soumâa village near the town of Thénia from the works of Djurdjura in 796 AH and died in the year 857 AH, and was buried next to Meraldene River in the Zawiyet Sidi Boushaki within the Khachna Mountains.[6][7][8][9][10]
The Poem of Sidi Boushaki is considered as one of the most famous books of the Arabic tongue in the Islamic world that dealt with grammar by explaining the prose text of Expressing the Arabic grammar rules written by Ibn Hisham al-Ansari.[16][17][18][19][20]
It is considered one of the most famous entries on arabic grammar among the books of Sidi Boushaki, and there are several manuscripts and published books interpreting and explaining this poem under the title "Argouzat al-Zawawi in grammar" (Arabic: أرجوزة الزواوي في النحو).[21][22][23][24]
The grammarian Sidi Boushaki composed his poem in 150 verses in accordance the arabic poetry metre called rajaz.[25][26][27]
He demonstrated in this text about his mastery in the arabic prosody and poetry, which gave the poem acceptance, admiration and spread in the world.[28][29][30]
The author divided his long poem into three main sections, namely the introduction, then the body, and finally the conclusion.[31][32][33]
In the first six verses, the author provided a summary of the content of the poem, which aims to teach Arabic grammar and ʾIʿrab according to rajaz type, which is an easy-to-memorize expression on the part of students of the Arabic language.[34][35][36]
Then came the text of the poem in 138 verses divided into four chapters, the first chapter is about the sentence (Arabic: الجملة), the second chapter is about the preposition and postposition (Arabic: الجار والمجرور), the third chapter is about the exceptional words in parsing, and the fourth chapter is about the special phrases in parsing.[37][38][39]
The writer concluded his poem in the chapter on the conclusion, where he singled out six verses to summarize his composition, praise God (Allah) and pray to Muhammad.[40]
Several linguists have written books on explaining the poem of Sidi Boushaki, due to its simplicity and ease of preservation in schools. Among these narrations and exegeses, we can cite:[41]
