Launches the first eight parts of the Knowledge Project, which for the first time chronicles the history of the vocabulary of the language of Dhad and its usage changes over 17 centuries.

Sultan Al Qasimi: “The Dictionary” is a dream that has haunted me for a long time ... and a day I waited for two decades

• Ruler of Sharjah during the launching ceremony of the dictionary in the city of Khor Fakkan, in the presence of a number of heads of Arabic language academies, senior Arabic language scholars and jurists in the Arab world.

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His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, launched the first volumes of the "Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language", the largest knowledge project for the nation, which chronicles for the first time the history of the vocabulary of the Dhad language and the changes in its use over 17 centuries (since pre-Islamic era To our times).

This came during a ceremony held by His Highness, Ruler of Sharjah, yesterday, in the city of Khor Fakkan, in the presence of a number of heads of Arabic language colleges, and senior Arabic language scholars and scholars in the Arab world.

By launching this achievement, His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, is achieving a historic mission with roots dating back about 100 years ago. Efforts and attempts were made in order to complete it, but these were postponed and canceled, and its right side, most notably the experience of the Cairo Complex in 1936, which was launched under the supervision of the German Arabist Fischer, Member The Arabic Language Academy in Cairo at the time, and stopped after the first cards of the Hamza letter had been prepared.

On this occasion, His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah sent a message to the people of the Arab culture, the speakers of the Dhad language, and the community of researchers and scholars, in which he offered “abundant thanks, sincere gratitude and sincere prayer to all those who contributed and participated in editing the historical dictionary of the Arabic language.”

His Highness said: “The project of the historical dictionary of the Arabic language was a dream that haunted me for a long time, and my eagerness to support it and direct it increased when I learned that the previous attempts on its side were success for various reasons. Until its complete completion, God Almighty willing. ”

His Highness added, “Here we are, today, on this honorable and joyful occasion, the issuance of the first eight parts of the historical dictionary in its beautiful dress, and its wonderful output, we place it in the hands of the nation and between the hands of intellectuals and lovers of the Arabic language, they come to me from the connotations of historical words and their words. A lot, and I am a man interested in history: why shouldn't the Arabs have a historical dictionary that records their language?

Are Arab linguists and lexicographers unable to complete this project?

No, the people of Arabia, its fans and scholars are not unable to write this dictionary and bring it out to the worlds, and I realized that the project needs to mobilize forces, motivate souls, unify ranks, organize efforts, and provide material coverage that suits the greatness of this project, and thank God Almighty scholars have reconciled us To overcome all the difficulties and obstacles that were standing in the way of the project.

What was a dream and an outrage of imagination 80 years ago today has become a witnessed reality, and all this is with the grace, generosity and kindness of God Almighty, and then through the efforts of the faithful like you. On this blessed and auspicious day, I can only bless the Arab and Islamic parts of all of them.

His Highness continued: “This is a day of great joy and overwhelming happiness, and I have been waiting for this day for more than two decades, and God Almighty wanted this project to see the light on your hands in Sharjah, which I consider to God as the bearer of Arab culture and as the capital of the Arab language. To make it a home for language, literature, theater, novels and all literary genres, and a place to which people of literature, lovers of culture, and lovers of knowledge seek refuge.

10 Arab academies participated in the completion of the dictionary, which is supervised by the Union of Linguistic and Scientific Academies in Cairo, and the Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah manages its executive committee, and the dictionary is based for its completion on a database that was collected and automated, and methodologies and systems for reference to it were developed during the past three years, to include Today, about 20 thousand books, sources and historical documents in Arabic, including inscriptions and monuments dating back to the third century before Islam.

In addition to searching and documenting the vocabulary of the Arabic language, the dictionary constitutes a huge electronic library composed of the mothers of language books, literature, poetry, philosophy and various scientific knowledge. After completing its entire preparation stages, the dictionary enables researchers and readers to have access to thousands of books, sources and documents, some of which are presented electronically for one time. The first in the history of Arabic knowledge content.

A memorable day from the days of «Arab»

The President of the Union of Arab Academic Linguistic Societies, Prof. Dr. Hassan Abd Al-Latif Al-Shafi’i, delivered a speech in which he said, “This is a memorable day in the days of Arabic, in which its flags flutter with pride and joy at the issuance of the historical dictionary of the Arabic language, and it is a long-awaited wish. From the Sodanat of Arabia and its lovers, for throughout the last century the masses of the educated in the Arab nation have been looking forward to the work of a historical dictionary, for their honorable language, which is one of the major languages ​​of the world, but it is heavy in intellectual, cultural, scientific and artistic weight, similar to those languages ​​that its people and who use it in Over the world, with that lexicon ».

The Secretary-General of the Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah, Dr.Muhammad Safi Al-Mostaghanemi, also reviewed, through an explanatory presentation, a brief historical overview of the dictionary, and the stages of completion of the first eight parts of it, referring to statistics about the total number of meetings held, the method of work followed, and methods of technical and technical preparation to complete the works Editing of volumes, working groups and committees working within the language groups spread throughout the Arab world.

In his turn, the scientific director of the historical dictionary project, Dr. Mamoun Wagih, in a speech to the audience, explained the details of the work that culminated in the issuance of the eight parts of the dictionary.

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