The Unification of Arabic Scientific Terms: Linguistic Terms as an Example

Every scientist knows that one of the requirements of a strict science is a well-defined and agreed-upon terminology. Modern linguistics as understood by most of its practitioners is no exception. However, modern Arabic writings dealing with linguistics do not show any conformity in their terminologies. A foreign term might have (according to our data) up to ten different equivalents.  This abundance of words in literature would be considered bliss, but this is a curse in a particular science. This paper tries to discover the origin/cause of this diversity and disagreement and suggest ways of standardizing Arabic linguistic terms.