تَصْنِيفُwriting

Example sentences

• 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.

  التَّصْنِيفُ — the writing. A verbal noun — an action packaged as a thing — naming the activity of authoring works. It is the subject of the inner 'that' clause, and although meaning-wise it is the doer, it wears the object-like ending because the heavy 'that' particle before it pulls it into that case.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →