The place of Rummānī's Ma'ānī al-Hurūf in Arabic language

The works in the genre of hurūf al-ma'ānī, which means the letters of meaning in the Arabic language, made a breakthrough with al-Zajjājī in the middle of the IVth century and began to be written in the form of small and independent treatises. These works aimed to reveal the subtleties of the sentence in terms of wording, meaning and judgment by dealing with the letters of meaning. Rummānī was an important Mu'tazilite theologian who is considered among the leading language, grammar and literature scholars of the IVth century. In his independent work Ma'ānī al-hurūf, which he wrote as a diary for hurūf al-ma'ānî, Rummânî included some letters of meaning and reinforced these word-sentence examples with verses, hadîths, poems, and uses in language. He dealt with four main sections in his work. In addition to these, he also included headings directly or related to letters. Ma'ānī al-hurūf has become an important work because it is one of the first works written in the field of hurūf al-ma'ānî and because it has eloquence. This study, which analyzes Rummānī's life, letters in Arabic grammar and Ma'ānī al-hurūf, consists of an introduction, three chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction, the subject, purpose, scope, method and sources of this study are discussed. In the first chapter, the author's life, the general characteristics of the period in which he lived, his teachers, contemporaries, students and his works are analyzed. In the second chapter, the letters in Arabic grammar and the works in the genre of hurūf al-ma'ânī are included. In the third part, after the general introduction of the work, the methods followed in the work, the style of presentation, the istishhāds as taken as basis in the preparation of the work, the comparison with the previous works of the genre of hurūf al- ma'ānī, and Rummānī's original determinations and opinions in his work Ma'ānī al-hurūf were discussed and an evaluation of the work in terms of Arabic language was made. Keywords: Syntax, al-Balāgha, Hurūf al-Mabāni, Hurūf al-Ma'ānī, Rummānī