2islaamiyyiina mutashaddidiina

[Josh_]

This is an example out of an Arabic grammar book I have (which says that is uses carefully chosen examples).

I was just wondering if this is correct:

حذّرت فرنسا أمس إسلاميين متشدّدين

or should be:

حذّرت فرنسا أمس متشدّدين إسلاميين

 

[cherine]

To my knowledge, both are correct, the difference is very slight between which word will be the adjective of the other :
islamiyyiina who are mutashaddidiina
or mutashaddidina who are islamiyyiina
It's mainly because both words are/can be used as adjectives.

Am I in any way clear ?

 

[elroy]

I think you are.

The first one means "Islamic people who are strict."

The second one means "strict people who are Islamic."

 

[Josh_]

Yeah, that makes sense. I don't know why I was having so much trouble with that. As I was thinking of both possible structures in my mind I could not see why one was better than the other. I can see how either one would be good as both can be used as adjectives.