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Johann Fück

يوهان فوك

Notable figure 1894–1974 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 30, 42 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 116845457): Fück, Johann, born 8 July 1894 in Frankfurt am Main, died 24 Nov. 1974

Field: Arabic philology

Affiliation

Philologist; author of ʿArabiya (Berlin 1950)

Biography

Born in Frankfurt, he taught at Halle. His ʿArabiya, a study of the language, its dialects and styles (Berlin 1950), was translated into Arabic by ʿAbd al-Halim al-Najjar and later by Ramadan ʿAbd al-Tawwab (1980), and he traced the study of Arabic in Europe in Die arabischen Studien in Europa (Leipzig 1955).

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»

“Until now classical ʿArabīya has owed its leading position essentially to the fact that, in all Arab countries and far beyond, it served as the linguistic symbol of the cultural unity of the Islamic world. Until now the …” The saying and its source →
“No event in the history of the Arabic language was more decisive for its destiny than the rise of Islam. In that age – more than thirteen hundred years ago – when Muhammad recited the Qur’an to his countrymen in a clear …” The saying and its source →
“The rules laid down by the Arab grammarians, with tireless effort and admirable devotion, set out and portrayed classical Arabic in all its aspects – its sounds, its forms, the structure of its sentences and the meanings…” The saying and its source →
“It had long since ceased to be natural for the children of these first circles to learn good Arabic from their surroundings; and these innovations were counted as linguistic mistakes (laḥn) by the Arabs, who had always h…” The saying and its source →
“In the course of the third/ninth century the growth and spread of the spoken language pursued the classical Arabic whose rules the grammarians had set out on the basis of the Bedouin speech, and steadily drove it out of …” The saying and its source →

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Johann Fück

Biography

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»