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The development of Arabic as a written language: papers from the special session of the seminar for Arabian studies held on 24 July, 2009

The development of Arabic as a written language: papers from the special session of the seminar for Arabian studies held on 24 July, 2009
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ISBN 1905739346 (pbk.)
9781905739349 (pbk.)
Meeting Name Seminar for Arabian Studies (43rd : 2009 : London, England)
Title The development of Arabic as a written language : papers from the special session of the seminar for Arabian studies held on 24 July, 2009 / edited by M.C.A. Macdonald
Publisher Oxford : Archaeopress, 2010
Physical desc. [x], 169 p. ; ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Series Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian studies 40 supplement
Note At head of title: "Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, volume 40."
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 / Laïla Nehmé -- The evolution of the Arabic script in the period of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Orthodox Caliphs in the light of new inscriptions discovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / ʿAlī Ibrāhīm Al-Ghabbān -- 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 ḥijāzī scripts / François Déroche-- 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.
Subject Arabic language -- Written Arabic -- History
Arabic alphabet -- History
Writing, Arabic -- History
Paleography, Arabic
Added name(s) Macdonald, M. C. A. ed.
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