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This course deals with the Orientalist movement, its cultural and evangelical causes, and the link between Arabic and Orientalism. Someone once said that " Orientalism is a science specialzed in language philology." Based on this, Orientalists first started to study Arabic in its traditional form, and their efforts concentrated on investigating, indexing, and authentificating its manuscripts. As a result, Sibawayh's book was published in France and was translated into German. Another main effort focused on lexicographical scholarship of Arabs such as the scholarly work that was carried out by Reinhart Dozy, Heywood and others. Attention must also be paid to some Orientalist distortions regarding what some of the theories they spread about the Greek and Syriac role in Arabic linguistics and Arabic syntactic studies. Attention must also be paid to the call made by some modern Orientalists for replacing standard Arabic with the vernacular dialects. |