Sajjad Hejri
Abstract
Terminology is one of the necessities of any science, which, if done historically, would be doubly useful. Among the terms of practical philosophy, which although it is familiar and used extensively in the sciences of the Qur'an as well as in history and custom, as a philosophical expression, it has ...
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Terminology is one of the necessities of any science, which, if done historically, would be doubly useful. Among the terms of practical philosophy, which although it is familiar and used extensively in the sciences of the Qur'an as well as in history and custom, as a philosophical expression, it has not been studied from a historical point of view, it is the word مدنی, which is the relational adjective of مدینة. This term, which is widely used in the heritage of the Islamic world, is used in the title of the third branch of practical wisdom, الفلسفة المدنیة, and the infamous and fundamental term مدنی بالطبع which is central to philosophical anthropology and philosophy of social sciences, is derived from it. Therefore, it is necessary to address it, especially studying it in civilization studies is also necessary; because the word civilization is also based on it. By examining the مدینة and مدنی in the original dictionaries of the Arabic language such as Al-Ain, Mukhtar Al-Sahah, Tahzib Al-Loghah, as well as in books related to Quranic sciences, this article opens the way for its research in the Arabic reports/translations of Greek philosophical texts which by investigating them it seems that the unknown translator of Aristotle's Rhetoric is a pioneer in the use of مدینة and its derivatives in the Greek translation of πολις and its derivatives, and in the use of مدینی as a relational adjective is also unique and perhaps it is a sign of its antiquity.
