Features of the Historical Method in the Arabic Linguistic Heritage

Abstract

 The historical method in the Arabic language is an approach that is concerned with tracing the linguistic phenomenon and studying it through time; the study of language under this method is characterized by tracing the linguistic phenomenon through different eras and multiple places to stand on what has happened to its development , and to know the secrets of this development and its various laws , and this method is characterized by the relationship of the latter with the normative approach shows that Arabic is capable of development and transforms the standards of any time period of its life into new standards. 

 There were no significant historical studies , but there were some features of those studies , including what was mentioned in the book (decorations in Islamic words) by Al-Razi (d.322 ah), which was about tracing the new words that appeared in Arabic after Islam , with mention of the meanings of those words in ignorance , and(dictionary of the basis of rhetoric) by zamakhshari (d. 322 ah), which 538 ah), which he did not classify with the intention of being a historical lexicon, but when we look at it today we find examples of verbal metaphor when it turns into reality, with repeated use, after the covenant in the original true sense, and other features that mean to us when we dig into the texts and books of the ancients.