Rhetoric and its Development throughout History: A Theoretical Study

This study aims to highlight the importance of Arabic rhetoric among linguistic sciences that have extensive close
relations with various arts and humanities. The article began by defining rhetoric with its importance as an allusion
to its truth and function in literary study. And he showed how rhetoric had developed through the ages until it
became an integrated scientific unit that advanced in the successive centuries and branched out into three sciences;
Meanings, statement and Badi’. The article mentioned some great scholars who played important roles in
establishing the science of rhetoric. In the end, the sayings of the scholars indicated that the founder of the science
of rhetoric was not a single creation that was indicated or appointed, but rather the establishment of the science of
rhetoric was a process that included times and layers of scholars, in which a number of genius scholars participated
in their various contributions. Before the "science of rhetoric" was made to the state it is in today.