A Grammar of the Arabic Language, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) Hardcover – August 24, 2018

This book can offer something most studies of Arabic do not. In learning Arabic, you will most likely be exposed to either the western method or the traditional method. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. This book obviously is a not the traditional approach, as such you will see such a thoroughness of investigation into the language that you may be overwhelmed. So, to use this to learn Arabic may be very difficult. However if you do have some knowledge of Arabic this book will help to make clear much of what is instinctual to the Arab's tongue, though they cannot explain it. For example, the simple verb form of qatala has the same vowel throughout, but taking that same form with another word like "he heard" it would be sami'a. I've met few Arabs that can explain this phenomenon by other than saying "that's just how it is, you have to memorize it". This book offers can some insight even into such details of the Arabic language. It also ends with a thorough section of Arabic poetry, wherein all the "oceans" are explained.

The book itself would be very useful could I read it, but copying/scanning of this classic is unreadable. This dreadful stuff should never have been bound. That it is the fault of the copyer/scanner is apparent from the fact that a few of the pages are excellent (very few). This is a shame because all the other language books I bought through this offering are very good.

This classic reference work never goes out of style.

With Wright's book, more explanation is available to make sense of McCowan's introduction to Arabic mechanics. The details and tables help readers to get the overall picture.

Wright's Grammar of the Arabic language is a "must have". With this edition, however, you only get half (the lesser half) of the product, since it includes only part I of Wright's Grammar, the (probably more important) part about syntax not being included. The Dover edition  Arabic Grammar (Dover Books on Language) , on the other hand, contains both parts in one volume. It is about the same price, but on the other hand, it is only paperback.

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The comprehensiveness and usefulness of W. Wright's grammar is well known; however, the Bibliobazzar edition gives the misleading impression that it contains both volumes of two volume book while it only includes the first volume. If you are expecting to get both volumes, look elsewhere. The only real benefit in getting this edition is that the font is large making the text easier to read.

This book was wriiten by Caspari and only translated into english by Wright. It is by far the best book on this subject in the english language. Nothing like it has been produced as the days of orientalist scholarship that was able to appreciate and understand classical grammarians as those upon whose work Caspari based this on have gone. Modern arrogance has left this book on the shelves getting dusty when it should be the basis of all arabic study. The book is at times difficult to read as the english has not been edited since 1923 however this is good as it keeps out unwanted comment.All in all if you buy this book (despite its price) I assure you, you will never grow out of it- and if you do you most certainly won't consider that money other than well spent- Good Luck!

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Ich hatte mir dieses Buch bestellt, weil mir die Grammatik von Wright von unserem Dozenten empfohlen wurde, diese Ausgabe (Classical Reprint) jedoch ist in meinen Augen nutzlos, weil die Schrift sehr unleserlich ist bzw gar nicht zu lesen und auf manchen Seiten große schwarze Flächen anstatt Text zu finden sind. Ich hab sie zurück geschickt und suche mir eine andere...