The Impact of Historical Perspective on Contemporary Arabic Language Studies

Ahmet Kaplan

Makale detayları

The Impact of Historical Perspective on Contemporary Arabic Language Studies

Yazarlar:

Ahmet Kaplan

Yayıncı:

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University

Ana Başlıklar:

Din | Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları

Dergi:

Rize İlahiyat Dergisi Issue 24, pp.117-128

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001301750

pISSN:

2980-0331

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 This paper, aims to investigate the impact of historical perspective on some contemporary studies. This affect is apparent in comparisons made between assessments of Arabic scholars and modern linguistic theories and notions in the West. The Arabic world, after gaining their independence, had tried their hardest to import the knowledge from the West due to political, scientific, and sociological reasons. While Arabs accepted the superiority of knowledge in several fields that produced in the West, their look, on the contrary, at the modern linguistics has always been suspicious. Nevertheless, they did not hold back from finding out the similar or better correspondent linguistic theories or conceptions in Arabic language tradition. However, the aim of the early Arabic language scholars and the context of the knowledge they produced were quite different from those of the modern period linguists and the conditions of the emergence of linguistics. In this respect, it is a methodological error to decontextualize the concepts mentioned in the history of Arabic language or to subject them to forced interpretations to match them with modern linguistic concepts, and it also disrupts the epistemic value of linguistic knowledge that has gone down in history. The wealth and depth of Arabic language tradition has been useful in ascribing those new linguistic theories and concepts to Arabic tradition as it was asserted that these concepts dealt with by scholars without nomination. We assume that the effect of historical interpretation worked out well here. The ideological dimension of the historical interpretation exceeds the limits of this paper, for that, this paper limited with some examples in which the effect of honorific interpretations of history on Arabic studies is obvious. These examples are selected from the works of people who are known for their linguistic contributions in the Arab world in the modern period. The historical and social conditions of the theories and knowledge referred to in this paper have not been discussed as they would exceed the limits of this article.

 This paper, aims to investigate the impact of historical perspective on some contemporary studies. This affect is apparent in comparisons made between assessments of Arabic scholars and modern linguistic theories and notions in the West. The Arabic world, after gaining their independence, had tried their hardest to import the knowledge from the West due to political, scientific, and sociological reasons. While Arabs accepted the superiority of knowledge in several fields that produced in the West, their look, on the contrary, at the modern linguistics has always been suspicious. Nevertheless, they did not hold back from finding out the similar or better correspondent linguistic theories or conceptions in Arabic language tradition. However, the aim of the early Arabic language scholars and the context of the knowledge they produced were quite different from those of the modern period linguists and the conditions of the emergence of linguistics. In this respect, it is a methodological error to decontextualize the concepts mentioned in the history of Arabic language or to subject them to forced interpretations to match them with modern linguistic concepts, and it also disrupts the epistemic value of linguistic knowledge that has gone down in history. The wealth and depth of Arabic language tradition has been useful in ascribing those new linguistic theories and concepts to Arabic tradition as it was asserted that these concepts dealt with by scholars without nomination. We assume that the effect of historical interpretation worked out well here. The ideological dimension of the historical interpretation exceeds the limits of this paper, for that, this paper limited with some examples in which the effect of honorific interpretations of history on Arabic studies is obvious. These examples are selected from the works of people who are known for their linguistic contributions in the Arab world in the modern period. The historical and social conditions of the theories and knowledge referred to in this paper have not been discussed as they would exceed the limits of this article.

 This paper, aims to investigate the impact of historical perspective on some contemporary studies. This affect is apparent in comparisons made between assessments of Arabic scholars and modern linguistic theories and notions in the West. The Arabic world, after gaining their independence, had tried their hardest to import the knowledge from the West due to political, scientific, and sociological reasons. While Arabs accepted the superiority of knowledge in several fields that produced in the West, their look, on the contrary, at the modern linguistics has always been suspicious. Nevertheless, they did not hold back from finding out the similar or better correspondent linguistic theories or conceptions in Arabic language tradition. However, the aim of the early Arabic language scholars and the context of the knowledge they produced were quite different from those of the modern period linguists and the conditions of the emergence of linguistics. In this respect, it is a methodological error to decontextualize the concepts mentioned in the history of Arabic language or to subject them to forced interpretations to match them with modern linguistic concepts, and it also disrupts the epistemic value of linguistic knowledge that has gone down in history. The wealth and depth of Arabic language tradition has been useful in ascribing those new linguistic theories and concepts to Arabic tradition as it was asserted that these concepts dealt with by scholars without nomination. We assume that the effect of historical interpretation worked out well here. The ideological dimension of the historical interpretation exceeds the limits of this paper, for that, this paper limited with some examples in which the effect of honorific interpretations of history on Arabic studies is obvious. These examples are selected from the works of people who are known for their linguistic contributions in the Arab world in the modern period. The historical and social conditions of the theories and knowledge referred to in this paper have not been discussed as they would exceed the limits of this article.

 Bu çalışma, tarih anlayışının modern dönemde yapılan bazı çalışmalar üzerindeki etkisine işaret etmeyi amaçlar. Bu etki, ilk dönem âlimlerin Arap diliyle ilgili düşünceleriyle modern dilbilimin bilgi ve kuramları arasında yapılan mukayeselerde oldukça güçlü bir biçimde hissedilir. Arap dünyası Batı işgalinden kurtulup egemenliğini elde ettikten sonra siyasi ve milli saiklerle ilmi ve kültürel alanlar başta olmak üzere kapsamlı bir kalkınma hareketi başlatmış ve Batı dünyasına açılmıştır. Arap dünyası Batıda üretilen teknik bilgi başta olmak üzere pek çok bilginin üstünlüğünü kabul etmekle birlikte modern dilbilime daima şüpheyle bakmıştır. Buna rağmen modern dilbilimin kuram ve kavramlarını, bağlamları ve arka planları çok farklı olsa da kendi dilbilimsel tarihinde aramaktan geri durmamıştır. Oysa ilk dönem Arap dili âlimlerinin amacı ve ürettikleri bilginin bağlamı modern dönem dilbilimcilerinkinden ve dilbilimin ortaya çıkış şartlarından oldukça farklı olmuştur. Bu itibarla Arap dil tarihinde zikredilen kavramları modern dilbilim kavramlarıyla eşleştirmek için bağlamından koparmak veya zorlama yorumlara maruz bırakmak yöntemsel bir hata olduğu gibi tarihe mal olmuş dilbilimsel bilginin epistemik değerini de yok etmektedir. Arap dil tarihinin zenginliği ve derinliği, modern dilbilimde ortaya çıkan kuram ve kavramların adı konmadan gelenekte var olduğunu ispatlamada oldukça işe yaramıştır. Burada tarih anlayışının çok etkili olduğu kanaatindeyiz. Meselenin dil ideolojileriyle ilgili boyutu bu çalışmanın sınırlarını aşacağından, bu çalışma, tarihsel algının dil araştırmalarındaki etkisine dair bazı örneklerle sınırlı tutulmuştur. Bu örnekler modern dönemde Arap dünyasında dilbilimsel katkılarıyla tanınan kişilerin çalışmalarından seçilmiştir. Atıfta bulunulan bilgi ve kuramların neşet ettiği tarihsel ve toplumsal şartlar bu makalenin sınırlarını aşacağından ele alınmamıştır.

Makale detayları

The Impact of Historical Perspective on Contemporary Arabic Language Studies

Yazarlar:

Ahmet Kaplan

Yayıncı:

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University

Ana Başlıklar:

Din | Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları

Dergi:

Rize İlahiyat Dergisi Issue 24, pp.117-128

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001301750

pISSN:

2980-0331

Arabic Language

Linguistics

Historical Perspective

Interpretation

IdeologyArap Dili

Tarih Algısı

Dilbilimi

Yorum

İdeoloji

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Ahmet Kaplan

Yayıncı: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University

Ana Başlıklar: Din | Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları

Dergi: Rize İlahiyat Dergisi Issue 24, pp.117-128

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 10/2023

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001301750

pISSN: 2980-0331

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Ahmet Kaplan

Yayıncı:

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University

Ana Başlıklar:

Din | Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları

Dergi:

Rize İlahiyat Dergisi Issue 24, pp.117-128

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001301750

pISSN:

2980-0331