Ibn Jenni's semantics studies

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The study of the meaning is the oldest intellectual concerns of human over time and in various cultures and civilizations. The meaning have occupid the chiness and Indian thinkers and philosophers of the Greeks and Romans during centuries. The Arab and Muslim linguists and others mostly shared in study of many issues related to meaning of the words. Arab’s linguistic research has focus on determining of meaning and purposes of quran. The discussion and survey of issues that took place among the Arab and Islamic scholars related to meaning. But the study of meaning in Islamic and Arabic heritage had merged in the other linguistic studies and the issue mixed with various knowledge and had not the distinctive title and was not independent in his themes and specific criteria. But unfortunately many researchers thought that the semantics is the knowledge that its bases and principals have grew ...

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