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Van Putten, Marijn,

Quranic Arabic : from its Hijazi origins to its classical reading traditions / by Marijn van Putten. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] - 1 online resource. - Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, volume 106 0081-8461 ; .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--

ISBN: 9789004506251 900450625X

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Qurʼan--Language, style.
Qurʼan.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arabic language--Grammar.
Arabe (Langue)--Grammaire.
Arabic language--Grammar.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Etymology

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PJ6696