Cognitive Integration in the Arab Heritage: Grammar and Rhetoric as a Model

Abstract

This research aims to draw attention to the issue of cognitive integration, and the overlap between sciences in the Arab-Islamic heritage, whether the integration and overlap between knowledge and human sciences in their generality, or the integration and overlap between the sciences involved under one science, as is the case with regard to language sciences, or what is called in Modern linguistics the linguistic levels. The study assumes that the knowledge integration and overlap between sciences in the Arab-Islamic heritage derives from revelation, and from the oneness of the Creator and that the categorization and dismantling that sciences knew in the contemporary world caused the man to lose the cosmic and comprehensive reading of the world and man, and that specialization stemmed from Western modernity and the Islamic nation was influenced by it and imitated it and moved away from the past of its ancestors and civilization. We chose to divide this research into an introduction, two sections and a conclusion. We devoted the first topic to talking about the integration and overlap between knowledge and science in the Arab heritage, and its relationship to the issue of the encyclopaedia of scholars, in addition to the integration between the linguistic levels in the Arab linguistic heritage. As for the second topic, we represented this linguistic integration with the sciences of grammar and rhetoric, and we took Abdul Qaher Al-Jurjani as a model by working on the issue of advancing and delay in his book Dala'il Al-I'jaz (Evidence of Miracles), where he realized the complementarity of the relationship between the function of grammar and rhetoric, so he sought to mix the two functions.