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In this volume the author examines the origins of Arabic linguistics on the basis of the earliest Qur’ānic commentaries (1st half of the 8th century A.D.). The material used includes both edited texts and manuscript commentaries. Various chapters analyze the exegetical methods of the early commentators (such as Muqātil and Muḥammad al-Kalbī) and their use of grammatical terminology. These data are compared with the earliest grammatical treatises (Such as Sābawayhi and Farrā’). The material presented here constitutes an important source of evidence for the development of linguistic thinking in Islam and the origin of the grammatical schools of Basra and Kufa.

Arabic language --- Grammar --- History. --- Qur'an --- Language, style --- History --- Arabic language - Grammar - History. --- Qurʼan --- Al-Coran --- Al-Qur'an --- Alcorà --- Alcoran --- Alcorano --- Alcoranus --- Alcorão --- Alkoran --- Coran --- Curān --- Gulan jing --- Karan --- Koran --- Koranen --- Korani --- Koranio --- Korano --- Ku-lan ching --- Ḳurʼān --- Kurāna --- Kurani --- Kuru'an --- Qorān --- Quräan --- Qurʼān al-karīm --- Qurʺon --- Xuraan --- Κοράνιο --- Каран --- Коран --- קוראן --- قرآن --- Language, style. --- History and criticism.

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An introductory guide for students of Arabic language, Arabic historical linguistics and Arabic sociolinguistics.

Arabic language -- Discourse analysis. --- Arabic language -- Rhetoric. --- Arabic language -- Usage. --- Arabic language -- Variation. --- Arabic language --- Languages & Literatures --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- History --- Arabic language - History

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An introductory guide for students of Arabic language, Arabic historical linguistics and Arabic sociolinguistics.

Didactics of languages --- Linguistics --- Arabic language --- History.

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The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions, which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla of Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North, West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami heritage in the Americas. The papers analyze (ethno-) historical, literary, (socio-) linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of these previously understudied writing traditions and exemplify their range and scope, providing new data for the comparative study of writing systems, literacy in Africa, and the history of (Islam in) Africa.

Arabic language --- Arabic alphabet. --- Alphabet --- Writing. --- Africa --- Languages. --- Arabic language - Writing --- Arabic alphabet --- Africa - Languages