8vo. [12], 940 pp., Arabic text within borders, title printed in red & black, in Arabic and French “La Critique de Langue”, iv introduction in French, edited & introduced by Louis Cheikho, modern hard back binding, Catholic Press, Beirut, 1896-1898.

Synopsis

Ibn al-Sikkit of Baghdad, the acknowledged scholar of lexicography and syntax, was tutor to Mutawakkkil’s son. “Although he is mostly counted among the Kufan grammarians, he received his professional education in Baghdad, where his teachers were, among others, al-Fraa’, Qutrub, abu ‘Obaida and al-Asma’i.
Most of ibn al-Sikkit’s work has not been preserved, but his influence has been considerable in view of the facts that he is extensively quoted by almost all later lexicographers. His main interest were poetry and lexicography, but it is important to note that in his most important lexicographical work, the Kitab Islah al-Mantiq, he arranged his material at least in part according to morphological criteria.” Lexicon Grammaticorum, p. 695.