Arabization in the Arab World: Three Different Experiments (original) (raw)
1995, The Research Journal of Al-Baath University,
Abstract I start this work by presenting a historical background about the Ottoman domination of the Arab countries, banning Arabic in public schools and replacing it with Turkish (policy of Turification), and European colonization of the Arab countries and the introduction of English and French as the formal languages. Then I talk about the need for using Arabic as the medium which preserves Arabic culture and heritage. Arabic is a necessity on different levels: national, social, educational, and scientific. Then I consider some previous experiments in Arabization and the use of Arabic in teaching science, such as the Egyptian experiment in the 19th century during the reign of Muhammad Ali Basha and Khedive Ismail, and the Lebanese experiment and the American University of Beirut. Moreover, I concentrate on the Syrian experiment in the 20th century. The opening of "The Arabic College of Medicine" in 1919 in Damascus, and the use of Arabic as the language of teaching, the publication of scientific journals and medical magazines in Arabic, the establishment of the Academy of Arabic Language in Damascus and its role in advancing Arabic language and Arabization, the expansion of the Syrian universities and their roles in coining and introducing Arabic equivalents for modern scientific and medical terms, the methodology followed by the staff of the Syrian universities in Arabiztion. The Problems facing Arabization are investigated and recommendations and solutions about them are provided.
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