The Development of Arabic As a Written Language: Papers From The Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Stuides Held on 24 July, 2009: Supplement ... Seminar for Arabian Studies, Volume 40, 2010 - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1905739346 ISBN 13 : 9781905739349

Editeur : Archaeopress, 2010

Synopsis

Contents: Introduction: The development of Arabic as a written language (Christian Julien Robin); Ancient Arabia and the written word (M.C.A. Macdonald); Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia (Robert Hoyland); A glimpse of the development of the Nabataean script into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material (Laila Nehme); The evolution of the Arabic script in the period of the Prophet Mu?ammad and the Orthodox Caliphs in the light of new inscriptions discovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ('Ali Ibrahim Al-Ghabban); In search of a standard: dialect variation and New Arabic features in the oldest Arabic written documents (Pierre Larcher); The codex Parisino-petropolitanus and the ?ijazi scripts (Francois Deroche); The relationship of literacy and memory in the second/eighth century (Gregor Schoeler); The Use of the Arabic script in magic (Venetia Porter); The Old Arabic graffito at Jabal Usays: A new reading of line 1 (M.C.A. Macdonald).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael C. A. Macdonald is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy. He works on the languages, scripts and ancient history of Arabia and directs the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/). He has been working at Taymāʾ since 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Archaeopress
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905739346
• ISBN 13: 9781905739349
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Éditeur: Macdonald Michael C.A.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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