A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic
This volume offers the most comprehensive linguistic analysis to date of Vatican Arabic MS 13, a late 9th/early 10th-century Arabic Gospel manuscript. Combining meticulous quantitative study with wide-ranging comparative evidence, this book provides an in-depth examination of the manuscript's orthog...
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| description | This volume offers the most comprehensive linguistic analysis to date of Vatican Arabic MS 13, a late 9th/early 10th-century Arabic Gospel manuscript. Combining meticulous quantitative study with wide-ranging comparative evidence, this book provides an in-depth examination of the manuscript's orthography, phonology, morphology, morpho-syntax, and syntax. Through extensive charts, tables, and multiple interpretive frameworks, the author illuminates how linguistic features pattern across every dimension relevant to accurate analysis.Crucially, the study does not treat MS 13 in isolation. Its features are systematically compared with those of other Christian Arabic manuscripts, Quranic traditions, medieval Arabic registers, early poetry, and modern dialects. This contextualised approach situates the manuscript within the rich linguistic diversity of medieval Arabic and challenges long-standing assumptions about 'Middle Arabic' and 'Classical Arabic'. By demonstrating that many features of MS 13 align with broader scribal and linguistic practices of the period, the book makes a compelling case against the notion that scribes worked towards a single, unified register or variety. Rather, they drew creatively and pragmatically from a diverse repertoire of features and linguistic traditions, revealing a far more dynamic and multifaceted approach to written composition than previously recognised.An outstanding and field-shaping contribution, this volume provides an essential model for future work on Christian Arabic, medieval Arabic varieties, and the history of Arabic more broadly. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1765232026-05-19T07:47:32Z A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic Stokes, Phillip W. Arabic Codicology Arabic Linguistic History Arabic Linguistics Christian Arabic Medieval Arabic Writing Cultures Middle Arabic The Bible in Arabic thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity::QRMF Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings thema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YP Educational material::YPC Educational: Language, literature and literacy::YPCS Educational: Classical and ancient languages This volume offers the most comprehensive linguistic analysis to date of Vatican Arabic MS 13, a late 9th/early 10th-century Arabic Gospel manuscript. Combining meticulous quantitative study with wide-ranging comparative evidence, this book provides an in-depth examination of the manuscript's orthography, phonology, morphology, morpho-syntax, and syntax. Through extensive charts, tables, and multiple interpretive frameworks, the author illuminates how linguistic features pattern across every dimension relevant to accurate analysis.Crucially, the study does not treat MS 13 in isolation. Its features are systematically compared with those of other Christian Arabic manuscripts, Quranic traditions, medieval Arabic registers, early poetry, and modern dialects. This contextualised approach situates the manuscript within the rich linguistic diversity of medieval Arabic and challenges long-standing assumptions about 'Middle Arabic' and 'Classical Arabic'. By demonstrating that many features of MS 13 align with broader scribal and linguistic practices of the period, the book makes a compelling case against the notion that scribes worked towards a single, unified register or variety. Rather, they drew creatively and pragmatically from a diverse repertoire of features and linguistic traditions, revealing a far more dynamic and multifaceted approach to written composition than previously recognised.An outstanding and field-shaping contribution, this volume provides an essential model for future work on Christian Arabic, medieval Arabic varieties, and the history of Arabic more broadly. 2026-05-19T07:47:26Z 2026-05-19T07:47:26Z 2026-05-18T03:33:32Z 2026 book 2632-6914 https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0517 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113008 9781805118343 9781805118350 9781805118367 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176523 eng Semitic Languages and Cultures open access image/jpeg https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113008/4/9781805118367.pdf Open Book Publishers Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0517 10.11647/OBP.0517 b014b543-78bd-4c3b-bc71-b68e2ac855b9 9781805118343 9781805118350 9781805118367 Open Book Publishers 434 Cambridge, UK open access |
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| topic | Arabic Codicology Arabic Linguistic History Arabic Linguistics Christian Arabic Medieval Arabic Writing Cultures Middle Arabic The Bible in Arabic thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity::QRMF Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings thema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YP Educational material::YPC Educational: Language, literature and literacy::YPCS Educational: Classical and ancient languages |
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