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OverviewThe Damascus Palm Fragment investigates Arabic's transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It asks, What would Arabic's early history look like if we wrote it based on the documentary evidence? The book frames this question through the linguistic investigation of the Damascus Psalm Fragment (PF), the longest Arabic text composed in Greek letters from the early Islamic period. It is argued that its language is a witness to the Arabic vernacular of the early Islamic period, and then moves to understand its relationship with Arabic of the pre-Islamic period, the Qur'anic Consonantal Text, and the first Islamic century papyri, arguing that all of this material belongs to a dialectal complex that we call Old Higazi. The book concludes by presenting a scenario for the emergence of standard Classical Arabic as the literary language of the late eighth century and beyond. This is the second volume to appear in the new Oriental Institute series - Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (LAMINE) - which aims to publish a variety of scholarly works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions, translations, studies of corpora of documents, in short any work that offers a significant contribution to understanding the Near East between roughly 200 and 1000 CE. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ahmad Al-Jallad , Ronny VollandtPublisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Imprint: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.352kg ISBN: 9781614910527ISBN 10: 1614910529 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 24 July 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations List of Tables and Figures Bibliography Contributions 1. The History of Arabic through Its Texts 2. The Psalm Fragment: Script, Phonology, and Morphology 3. Dating and Localizing the Document, Writing System, and Language 4. Old Arabic, Middle Arabic, and Old Higazi 5. Edition of the Arabic Columns of the Damascus Psalm Fragment Appendix 1 Beyond Arabic in Greek Letters: The Scribal and Translational Context of the Violet Fragment Appendix 2 Pre-Islamic Graeco-Arabic Texts IndexReviewsAuthor InformationAhmad al-Jallad is Associate Professor in the Departmentof Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University; his work focuses on the languages and writing systems of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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