Ibrahim Al-Mundhir (1875-1950 AD) as a linguistic Critic

Abstract

This study sheds light on the efforts of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Mundhir in linguistic criticism through his book (The Book of Al-Mundhir). He is a writer, poet, journalist, and linguist, and one of the branches of linguistic criticism. He treated many of the urgent words in them, which were well-known and widespread in the pens of writers and poets.

Al-Mundhir’s book contains linguistic corrections that may exceed one hundred and fifty, at the morphological, grammatical, and semantic levels of language. Accordingly, the study aims to seek the strengths of Al-Mundhir’s corrections while praising them, and pointing out the weaknesses in them and exposing them with evidence and arguments. It must be noted that these corrections were the focus of attention of modern critics, such as the critic Salah al-Din al-Zaabalawi, Mustafa al-Ghalayini, Muhammad al-Adnani, Emile Badie Yaqoub, and others. They exposed them and responded to some of them with arguments and evidence. Therefore, the study will focus on these responses; To explain the method of linguistic thinking of corrective critics.