أضواء على تاريخ علوم العربية

Adwa' 'ala Tarikh 'Ulum al-'Arabiyyah

While we have studied the Arabic Language, we generally know very little about its origins, the various stages of its development, the various masters who contributed to it etc.
Knowledge of these is integral to mastery of a field.

Here is the publisher’s description of this book:

Complete mastery of a subject entails knowing its origins and development—that is, knowing its history and the course of its evolution. Just as every nation has a history whose pages record its origins and life, the stages of its development, the events of its various eras, and the achievements of its prominent figures, and we cannot truly know its qualities, characteristics, and civilisation without knowing its history, the same applies to any branch of knowledge. Whoever wishes to master and specialise in a particular field must know its origins, the stages of its development, and the scholarly contributions produced by its scholars at each stage.

إن من تمام إتقان الشيء معرفة أصله ونشأته، أي معرفة تاريخه وسيرة حياته، وكما أن لكل أمّةٍ تاريخًا تسجّل صفحاتُه أصلَها وحياتها ومراحل تطوّرها، وأحداث عصورها، وإنجازات رجالها؛ فلا نعرف صفاتها وخصائصها وحضارتها إلّا إذا عرفنا تاريخها، فكذلك العلم، لا بدّ لمن أراد إتقانه والاختصاص به، من معرفة نشأته ومراحل تطوّره، وما أنتج علماؤه في كل مرحلة من مراحله