ABSTRACT
An interesting and relevant fact about the history of Arabic will be emphasized in this chapter, namely that one of the most important keys to understanding the linguistic data in Arabic is understanding the medieval grammarians’ attitudes towards the available sets of data. We have referred to the issue in Chapter 2 above. This chapter is, therefore, not a linguistic study but a meta-linguistic analysis. It is important to keep in mind, however, that our understanding of the grammarians’ attitudes is still in its early stages despite efforts in this field from the 1970s.
