Creativity of the Concept and Terminology Making in the Experience of Taha Abdul Rahman: from Exaggeration and Imitation to Etymology and Creativity

Abstract

The research aims to study the experience of Taha Abd al-Rahman in creating the concept and making the term, as it is a pioneering and exemplary experience in releasing from the pressure of foreign concepts and anxious hybrid terms that bear the signals of the environment that produced them, and in proposing authentic terms that express the spirit of the nation in its language, history, knowledge balance and cultural identity. This research presents a reading of this unique experience and an analysis of its philosophy, dimensions, methodology and results, in order to present a model in the reception of human knowledge that is characterized by activating the spirit of modernity and not sanctifying any of its forms. The model of building and producing knowledge and producing its terminology is characterized by originality when it is associated with the rhetorical and cognitive specificity of the nation, and is linked to the intellectual independence and personal creativity of the thinker, and is characterized by the deliberative characteristic when it takes place in a harmonious, concerted and integrated context. The research will treat this experience in dealing with foreign concepts and terminology and in creating an Arab Islamic philosophy with its independent concepts and original terminology. He concluded that the experience of Taha Abd al-Rahman in the problem of terminology was based on a solid foundation of theoretical perception based on linking philosophy to Ijtihad and the implementation of thought, linking it to freedom and independence of opinion, denying imitation of it, denouncing its sanctification and intimidating its owners, whoever they may be.