The Damascus Psalm Fragment: Middle Arabic and the Legacy of Old Higazi (Al-Jallad Ahmad)(Paperback)

This new Oriental Institute series - Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (LAMINE) - aims to publish a variety of scholarly works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions, translations, studies of corpora of documentsin short, any work that offers a significant contribution to understanding the Near East between roughly 200 and 1000 CE. LAMINE 2 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,
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