The letters of Meaning in ‘At-Turjuman a’n Gharib Al-Qura’n’ of Tajuddin Abil-Mahasin Abdulbaqi Ibn Abdulmajeed Al-Yamani (died in 743 A.H.)

Abstract

The importance of this topic is attributed to its relation to the book of Allah (the Glorious Qur;an). When I read the book ‘At-Turjuman a’n Gharib Al-Qura’n’ of Tajuddin Abil-Mahasin Abdulbaqi Ibn Abdulmajeed Al-Yamani I found those who wrote about his biography they mentioned that he did not go deeper in meanings, and it is known that no one can write in this science except those who have wide knowledge in the speech of  Arabs, how they use their native language. I chose the letters (of meanings) as an example to point out whether he had such knowledge in this field or not so that this paper focused on ‘the letters of meanings’. We spoke about the biography of the author and the books he wrote in language. There are many books for Tajuddin some of which had not been mentioned by those who wrote about his biography. I divided this paper into sections, one of which has been devoted for the letters of meanings, and tried to classify them according to the their numbers. This paper has an introduction including the biography of Tajuddin. The other  four sections discussed the letters in question and the debate between Kufi and Basri grammarians. The paper is concluded with the most important results.