أم النحوية في مخطوطة (القبصات)‎ للكاتب محمد علي بن محمد الأصفهاني

Abstract EN

Syntax is one of the most important sciences in the language of Arabic since it helps with recognizing the correctness or weakness of Arabic sentences, and also helps with better recognition of affairs related to expressions in terms of composition.

One of the most obvious important syntactic topics which has challenged the thoughts of syntactical scientists is the issue of connected and disconnected Am which is considered as a very important issue since there are multiple signs in the holy Quran and prophets’ hadiths the comprehension of which relies on the manner of interpretation of disconnected Am by the syntactical scientists.

The general definition of Am and the description on its varieties declares that there are two types of Om: connected and disconnected.

In the case of connected Om, we will have a settlement tittle and so the Am and its referred words are either verbs, nouns or vice versa.

On the other hand, by disconnected Am it is referred to the one that lacks these features and is always brought to refer to denial.

However Mohammad Ali Ibn Mohammad Isfahani has further expanded this topic and pointed to this important point: there are four types of Am namely as connected, disconnected, redundant and explanatory; and for each one he has mentioned an instance; since none of the syntactical scientists except for Isfahani have elaborated on this issue in their books, the author of the present article found it necessary to elaborate on this topic.