مَجَالِسُsessions

Example sentences

• وَفِيهِ مُنَاظَرَاتُهُ وَمَجَالِسُهُ الَّتِي وَقَعَتْ لَهُ،

  And in it are his debates and his sessions that took place for him,

  وَمَجَالِسُهُ — and his sessions. Here wa- coordinates a second subject, a plural noun with -hu ('his') attached, onto the first. The conjunction joins the two parallel subjects of the same clause. The recurring -hu keeps tying the items to the author.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• ثُمَّ رَأَى اِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِ أَنَّ التَّصْنِيفُ فِي فَنِّ الْوَعْظِ يُكْمِلُ مَجَالِسَهُ؛

  Then Ibn al-Jawzi held that writing in the art of preaching complements his sermons.

  مَجَالِسَهُ — his sermons. A plural noun with a possessor stuck onto its end pointing back to Ibn al-Jawzi, the man under discussion — Arabic attaches the owner as a tail on the noun rather than using a separate word. Tracking that the 'his' reaches back to him, not to any nearer noun, is part of reading the line.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →