Quranic Arabic : from its Hijazi origins to its classical reading traditions / by Marijn van Putten.

Author
Van Putten, Marijn [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 106
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"What was the language of the Quran like, and how do we know? Today, the Quran is recited in ten different reading traditions, whose linguistic details are mutually incompatible. This work uncovers the earliest linguistic layer of the Quran. It demonstrates that the text was composed in the Hijazi vernacular dialect, and that in the centuries that followed different reciters started to classicize the text to a new linguistic ideal, the ideal of the arabiyyah. This study combines data from ancient Quranic manuscripts, the medieval Arabic grammarians and ample data from the Quranic reading traditions to arrive at new insights into the linguistic history of Quranic Arabic"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • 900450625X
  • 9789004506251 ((ebook))
LCCN
2021058287
OCLC
1288424288
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