10.17192/meta.2019.13.8094 Tsukanova, Vera Vera Tsukanova Waltisberg, Michael Michael Waltisberg Arabic as a scholarly language? Pitfalls of multilingualism in scholarship Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 13 (2019) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2019 arabic history of science education metalanguage scholarship Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2020-04-03 2019-12-22 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2019/235/8094 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2019-235-80946 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2019/235/8094/8094.png 2196-629X application/pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Virtually all Arabists at some point ask themselves whether they should take into account specialized literature in Arabic, whether to take part in conferences held in Arabic countries, and which language they should choose for publishing their work. In this paper, we try to review this question in a broader context of the language of scholarship. By adducing historical and typological parallels, we reflect on the role of language in conducting research and exchanging ideas. The authors of this article are both linguists specialized in Semitic languages; therefore, they concentrate on the problems of their field, although these should be relevant to some extent also for the adjacent fields in the humanities. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 13 (2019)