Under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Education for Women, Asst. Prof. Dr. Athmar Shaker Majeed Al-Shatri, and the supervision of the respected Head of the Arabic Language Department, Asst. Prof. Dr. Shafaq Youssef Jadoua, the Department of Arabic Language held a training workshop tagged ((Language and the Formation of the Arab Mind in the Project of Muhammad Abed Al-Jabri) on Wednesday, 12/2/2025 at eleven o‘clock in the morning in the Graduate Studies Hall in the Department of Arabic Language, and it was attended by a group of the department‘s professors, employees and graduate students, lectured by Asst. Prof. Dr. Karim Obaid Alawi.
The workshop included Al–Jabri‘s vision about language in his critical project of heritage, the language has formed the most important cognitive systems in the formation of the Arab mind and ranked first in building representations of the Arab man about the universe and the world and about himself and the other different, and if the linguistic knowledge in the linguistic achievement heritage as Al–Jabri sees represents the miracle of the Arab man because it transferred the language from being a slave to scientific rules and knowledge organized learnable and acquired, but at the same time it It contributed negatively to the dedication of sensory thinking and the distance of the Arab mind from critical thinking based on inference and proof, it is a language that is not historical, allegedly by Al-Jabri, and its dictionary does not include an abundance of vocabulary that ensures the fulfillment of the requirements of contemporary and the concerns and needs of the contemporary Arab individual in building his modernity, which is his bet and his choice to overcome the civilizational brokenness that he suffered.
The workshop aimed at the following:
1- Presenting Al-Jabri’s linguistic references and philosophical tributaries that formed his critical vision about the Arabic language.
2- Revealing the orientalist references that perpetuated his negative view of the Arabic language.
