Rissala fi Wajh Manaa Sarf al Ism by Mohamed Said Bin Mohieddine al al Jazairi (1861) -A Study and Investigation

Abstract

This paper includes a study and an investigation of the manuscript “Rissala fi Wajh Manaa Sarf al Ism” by Mohamed Said Bin Mohieddine al al Jazairi. He is the elder brother of Emir Abdel Qader al Jazairi. The topic of the manuscript, as its name shows, stems from semantics and syntax. The manuscript was written when Mohamed Said was a prisoner with his brother Emir Abdel Qader in Amboise, France. We want to make known the manuscript because it has never been investigated. The paper includes the background of the writer, the manuscript, and the text that investigated it. We used descriptive, historical, and text investigation methods. Findings show that most of the publications of Mohamed Said are preserved by the books house in Qatar, in a collection written by hand, and that the indexer did not mention this manuscript. Moreover, Mohamed Said had a venerable scientific position that manifests in the praise of the other scientists of him and in his legacy in various arts. Finally, we recommend the investigators to take care of the legacy of the Algerian scientists in the various arts and sciences.