On the last days, Research Chair of Sheikh Abdulaziz At-Twajiri for Humanities Studies, affiliated chair with Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, has launched the first-ever publications of the chair, says Dr. Muhammad Said Al-Alam, Vice-Rector for International Relations and Knowledge Exchange and who doubles as Principal of the Research Chair, in statements recently.
On the publications resulting from the chair, Dr. Al-Alam stated that, two books were published namely "Linguistics Movement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" by Dr. Ibrahim Al-Debian and "Role of Universities in Achieving Intellectual Security" by Dr. Saad Al-Hajhoj. He declared that, this step is one of the operational plans which include numbers of researching projects serving the chair objectives, and achieving the researchers' ambitions. Moreover such publications are often important in serving the community and its issues concerning the chair.
Furthermore, Dr. Al-Alam has shed some lights on the both books, where he stated that book "Linguistics Movement in Saudi Arabia" is addressing the linguistics movement at the period between 1351 AH to 1420 AH, focusing the published studies in Arabic Language in (vocal, morphological, grammatical, and lexical aspects), which took a conspicuous position verifying and authorship field in Saudi Arabia.
The study concluded that, the linguistics movement in Saudi Arabia is a rich production one. It had been through two stages; the inception stage which was at the period between the kingdom unification on 1351 AH, till the end of the ninth decade of the fourteenth of the Hegira century, which it was followed by the developing stage in the next term. It lightened the impact of the international and Arabic linguistics movement, so it varied in trends and methods.
The other book "Role of Universities in Achieving Intellectual Security" was a result of theoretical and filed studies. It emphasized the concept and the importance of the intellectual security and protecting it in Islam. It also defined the intellectual deviation and its impacts, and enlightened Islam role in protecting from it. In addition, the filed study presented the role of university's faculty staff, curricula, and educational guidance in achieving the intellectual security through the points of view of the educational collage's professors in some of Saudis universities. It also included some of achieving methods of intellectual security for university's students, and the impact of obtaining the intellectual security on individual, family, and community, in addition to some Saudi university efforts. The study has reached some results, recommendations, and suggestions which contribute in enforcing and achieving intellectual security to university's students.
At the end of his words, Dr. Al-Alam has voiced his gratitude and appreciation to sons of Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Abdul-Rahman At-Twajiri for their staunch support and financing, he also extended his thanks to H.E. Prof. Dr. Suliman Aba Al-Khail, Rector of Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and who doubles as Chairman of Research Chair Council, for his untiring support and backing to the university's chairs in general and to Sheikh Abdulaziz At-Twajiri research chair in particular.