Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Language, style [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 106. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 106 [More in this series]

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [320]-331) and indexes.

ISBN

• 9789004506244 ((hardback ; : acid-free paper))
• 9004506241 ((hardback ; : acid-free paper))

LCCN

2021058286

OCLC

1288422564

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