What others said about Arabic Read in the original
Of the science of language among the Arabs, grammar, lexicon and metre, after noting what entered grammar from Greek logic, and that it kept its own character all the same:
“At all events, it is an imposing production of the keenly-observing and diligently-collecting Arab intelligence, a production of which the Arabs might well be proud.”
T. J. de Boer
1866–1942
Dutch historian of philosophy, author of The History of Philosophy in Islam.
Original text — German
Jedenfalls ist sie eine großartige Schöpfung des fein beobachtenden und fleißig sammelnden arabischen Geistes, darauf die Araber stolz sein durften.
In Arabic
وعلى كلّ حالٍ فهو إبداعٌ عظيم من إبداع العقل العربيّ، الدقيقِ في ملاحظته، الدؤوبِ في جمعه، حُقَّ للعرب أن يفخروا به.
Source
Geschichte der Philosophie im Islam, Stuttgart: Frommann, 1901, p. 37
He wrote in German; the Arabic is our translation from the original. The Arabic version in circulation adds a sentence found in neither the German nor the English («a great work that compels whoever looks at it to esteem it»), drops the concession, and confines the remark to grammar. The English is by E. R. Jones (London, 1903, p. 35).
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