THE ROLE OF POETRY IN THE FORMATION OF THE ANDALUSIAN ARABIC GRAMMAR SCHOOL

The article examines the role of poetry in the formation and development of the Andalusian Arabic grammar school as one of the most significant intellectual trends of medieval Islamic civilization in al-Andalus. Unlike the Eastern grammatical tradition, which was primarily centered around the schools of Basra and Kufa, Andalusian grammarians approached linguistic theory through a synthesis of philology, poetry, rhetoric and literary criticism. Poetry functioned not merely as an artistic genre but also as a linguistic authority and methodological source for grammatical reasoning. Andalusian scholars widely employed poetic texts as evidence in the interpretation of syntactic structures, morphological variations and semantic subtleties.

The article also explores the contributions of major Andalusian scholars such as Ibn Mada al-Qurtubi, Ibn Malik and Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi. Their works illustrate how poetry became an essential instrument in the criticism of excessive grammatical analogy and in the establishment of a more text-oriented linguistic methodology. The study concludes that poetry played not only an aesthetic role but also an epistemological and methodological function in shaping the Andalusian Arabic grammar school and enriching the broader Arabic linguistic tradition.