Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The geography and demography of pre-Islamic Arabia -- PART 1 Sources of the study of Arabic -- 2 Trustworthy data -- 3 Grammarians and the dialects -- PART 2 Pre-Islamic Arabic …
This book offers a comprehensive account of Arabicization in the Middle East and Egypt in the early period of the Arab conquests. Drawing on material from ancient Arabic grammarians as well as modern studies in second language acquisition, it analyzes the linguistic and non-ling…
The pre-classical phase of the Arabic language is the term generally used to describe the stage in the development of the language between the first century C.E. and the emergence of Islam and the Arab conquests during the first/seventh century. The specifics of whether that lan…