تحليل النصوص المنسوبة للشافعي : نص (الوسائل الدالة على المعاني)‎ أنموذجا

Abstract EN

The problem statement of this study revolves around two claims of authorship to a valuable intellectual work of which is claimed by a group to be the work of Al-Shafi’e while the other attributed it to Al-Jahiz.

The study attempts to investigate the claims to attribute the work to its author with proofs that verify that its author was knowledgeable in certain methods in understanding textual meanings and that his need to understand it correctly had prompted him to dwell on its study to enable him to grasp these methods.

The importance of identifying the real author this work lies in the fact that it would become a tool to attract the attention of researchers interested in this field to study compilations attributable to their author authentically to enable them to arrive at other meticulous dispositions on language which subsequently would help them discover other suitable scholarly methods relevant to the study of Arabic or other languages.

The study investigates the claim of attributing the said work to its author with textual evidence concluded from practical examples which might prove its presence in the analysis of textual meaning.

The study concluded that, Al-Shafi’ie was the author of these methods and that Al-Jahiz had copied it from him with his own words without indicating its source.

In addition, this could also be considered as a newly emerged evidence that support the claim that the Usuli scholars had treated language issues a more in-depth manner then their language scholars colleagues.