The Development of Arabic as a Written Language : Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 40 2010 by Michael C.A. Macdonald

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 (La?la Nehm?); 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 (Fran?ois D?roche); 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).
Binding: Paperback / softback