The Development of Arabic as a Written Language - Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 40 (2010)
Papers from the Special
Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 24 July, 2009
Edited by M.C.A. Macdonald
169 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, maps, drawings
and photographs
ISSN 0308-8421
ISBN 978-1-905739-34-9
Published July 2010, £30.00
Steering Committee of the Seminar and Editorial Committee of the Proceedings:
Dr R. Carter (Chairman), Prof. A. Avanzini, Dr M. Beech, Dr. N. Durrani,
Dr R. Eichmann, Prof. C. Holes, Dr R.G. Hoyland, Dr. D. Kennet, Mr. M.C.A.
Macdonald, Dr A. MacMahon (Secretary), Prof. K. Al-Muaikel, Dr V. Porter,
Prof D. Potts, Prof. C. Robin, Dr St. J. Simpson, Mrs. J. Starkey (Editor),
Mr. A. Thompson (Treasurer), Prof. J. Watson, Dr. L. Weeks
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CONTENTS:
Preface by M.C.A. Macdonald (pages i-ii)
Christian Julien Robin,
Introduction: The development of Arabic as a written language (pages 1-3)
M.C.A. Macdonald, Ancient Arabia and the written word (pages 5-27)
Robert Hoyland, Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian
Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia (pages 29-45)
Laïla Nehmé, A glimpse of the development of the Nabataean
script into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material (pages 47-88)
‘Ali Ibrahim Al-Ghabban, The evolution of the Arabic script in the period of the Prophet Muhammad and the Orthodox Caliphs in the light of new inscriptions discovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (pages 89-101)
Pierre Larcher, In search of a standard: dialect variation and New Arabic features in the oldest Arabic written documents (pages 103-112)
François Déroche, The codex Parisino-petropolitanus and the hijazi scripts (pages 113-119)
Gregor Schoeler, The relationship
of literacy and memory in the second/eighth century (pages 121-129)
Venetia Porter, The Use of the Arabic script in magic (pages 131-140)
M.C.A. Macdonald, The Old Arabic graffito at Jabal Usays: A new reading
of line 1 (pages 141-143)
Papers read in the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
on 24 July 2009 (pages 145).
Index (pages 147-159)
Epigraphic Index (pages 160-169)
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