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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 39, January 2022
Vol.1, Issue 39, January

Ibn Khaldun and his living ideas about language and the

linguistic faculty
Walaa Mohamed Abas Bahij - Level 3 - Political Science
Dear reader, when the name of Ibn Khaldun is
mentioned, one of the most important scholars who is
proud of the sky of Islamic civilization usually comes
to mind. To the great approaching of great
determination. as he received the art of literature from
his mother, and he was on the verge of acquiring the
fruits of science in great demand, and moreover, he
frequently frequented the councils of well-established
scholars. And his extraordinary genius was evident
before he reached the age of twenty. as he was a lot of
movement and travel throughout his life And he had
a huge intellectual production represented in the
"Introduction", which is a valuable encyclopedia that
gathers a lot of valuable information in all fields, and
is suitable for applying its ideas and theories at every
time and place.
The main one that we are going to talk about, which is the extent to which his ideas fit the current reality. and as we
know that the era of Ibn Khaldun was located in the eighth century AH, so the existence of a correlation between his
ideas in that period and the current reality is considered a great manifestation of the extent of his ingenuity This
thinker was aware of the importance of the moment he was living in, and that it was a historical turning point that
would generate many future phenomena and problems.
And that is through the application to one of the chapters of his introduction entitled “In that the linguistic queen is
not an Arab industry and is dispensed with in education”. and the reason for choosing this chapter is precisely the
strong connection between his ideas and a very important issue in the current reality. which is the spread of Franco
Arab and the lack of interest in the linguistic queen Modern, and the severe confusion between Arabic and English
during the conversation, and this is indeed the memory of Ibn Khaldun when he spoke about the linguistic queen
becoming weak, and the dialects in the Arab countries that moved away from the language and lost their true
identity.

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