Arab’s Genius in scientific Writing “An Article in the Moonlight ‘Maqālah fī ḍaw’ al-qamr’” by Ibn al-Haytham as a Model

Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham is considered a pioneer in writing in a scientific Arabic language with distinctive characteristics such as style, terminology, symbols, illustrations, etc. He presented his message "An Article in the Moonlight" in a standard Arabic with easy to words, defined terms and clear meanings and connotations. This made his linguistic style as well as his scientific method in the development, use and dissemination of terms, a classy model for the high level achieved by the scientific and technical authorship in Arabic in the era of Islamic prosperity.
When he uses, for example, the expression of “the penetration of light on transparent bodies”, he depends on the linguistic meaning in the following derivation: one says, شَفَّ عَلَيْهِ ثَوْبُهُ يَشِفُّ شُفوفًا وشَفِيفًا “His garment was thin”; this means that his garment (or piece of cloth) was thin, fine, or delicate upon him so that what was behind it was visible. In his book “Book of Optics‘al-Manāẓir’”, Ibn Al-Haytham says: “The air is a very transparent and translucent body. However, it is not extremely transparent; rather it has a slight thickening.” We note that all the scientific terms used by Ibn Al-Haytham in “An Article in the Moonlight” are etymological or figurative, or structures and conjunctions of expression, without resorting to Arabization.