Tarih Anlayışının Modern Dönemdeki Arap Dili Çalışmalarına Etkisi.

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]