Consensus in Grammar (Al-Ijma' fi al-Nahw) - Dr Dakhil al-'Awwad

This book examines how early scholars reached agreement (ijma') when establishing the foundations of Arabic grammar. It explores what made these agreements authoritative, what evidence supported them, and how legitimate these grammatical consensuses were. It investigates which grammarians' opinions were considered valid enough to count and what obstacles sometimes prevented scholars from reaching agreement. The book traces how these scholarly agreements in grammar emerged and evolved through different historical periods, along with related aspects of this principle.

The significance of this topic becomes clear when we see how much attention grammarians have given to scholarly consensus. While researchers throughout history have extensively studied disagreements in grammar – as evidenced in classical works like al-Anbari's "Al-Insaf fi Masail al-Khilaf," al-'Ukbari's "Al-Tibyan," and al-Zubaydi's "I'tilaf al-Nasra" about disputes between Kufan and Basran grammarians – modern studies on grammatical disagreements are also numerous. Yet, the rules that grammarians actually agreed upon deserve even more attention than their disagreements. When scholars study these disputes and their causes, they're really examining what prevented consensus from being reached, since consensus is simply what remains when disagreement is resolved.