TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Putten,Marijn
TI  - Quranic Arabic: from its Hijazi origins to its classical reading traditions 
T2  - Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics,
SN  - 9789004506251
AV  - PJ6696 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Qurʼan
KW  - Language, style
KW  - fast
KW  - Arabic language
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Arabe (Langue)
KW  - Grammaire
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Etymology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwx0j
ER  -