Dear Mr. Muneer
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your valuable comment
In my opinion al-Kalil in formulating his Arud has shown that he was a mind beyond his times. He lived in middle ages but his methods were without doubt of modern age. I have always seen a striking similarity between Noam Chomsky's transformational generative grammar and al-khalil's prosody. In my opinion while Indian prosody was more like a classificatory, a descriptive effort, al-Khalil's prosody is more of a generative character. His circles which were not appreciated much are a proof of the generative character of his prosody. His afa'il are also part of the generative model
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