The Factors of the Renewal of the Arabic Language in the Modern Age A Study of Structure, Formation and Significance

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Cairo University, Faculty of Dar Al-Uloom

Abstract

The research deals with the development of the Arabic language in terms of structure, formation and significance to show that it is not as static as some people think, but like other languages it is renewable and developable and amenable to modern knowledge as the factors of life and rejuvenation are inherent in its nature. A close reading of the history of the Arabic language shows that it  has passed through many stages of development, notably the period of revelation  of the Koran and the dawn of Islam, the subsequent prosperity of civilization and science in the Abbasid era, and then what happened in the modern era under the reign of Muhammad Ali and the rise of new loan words and meanings in the modern age such as: telephone, radio, microscope, hotel, germ, computer, missile, cannon, plane, and others that are referred to in modern dictionaries as modernized, Arabized, loan and hybrid. The research addresses the various factors that promoted the growth and renewal of Arabic in the modern age, the most important of which are: analogy, Arabization, derivation, coinage, hybridization, formation, and figuration.

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