"A Special Session ... on The development of Arabic as a written language was held at the 2009 Seminar [for Arabian Studies] on Friday, 24th July ... Because the papers invited for the Special Session dealt with different aspects of a single specific topic, the Steering Committee felt that it would be best to publish them together in a separate book. It has therefore created for this purpose an occasional series of Supplements to particular volumes of the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, which will be available, either as a set with the relevant volume of PCAS, or separately. The present book is thus a Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies volume 40, 2010"-Pref.
Introduction - the development of Arabic as a written language / Christian Julien Robin
Ancient Arabia and the written word / M.C.A. Macdonald
Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia / Robert Hoyland
A glimpse of the development of the Nabataean script into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material / Laïla Nehmé
The evolution of the Arabic script in the period of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Orthodox Caliphs in the light of new inscriptions discovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / ʿAlī Ibrāhīm Al-Ghabbān
In search of a standard: dialect variation and New Arabic features in the oldest Arabic written documents / Pierre Larcher
The codex Parisino-petropolitanus and the ḥijāzī scripts / François Déroche
The relationship of literacy and memory in the second/eight century / Gregor Schoeler
The use of the Arabic script in magic / Venetia Porter
The Old Arabic graffito at Jabal Usays: a new reading of line 1 / M.C.A. Macdonald.
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The development of Arabic as a written language : papers from the special session of the seminar for Arabian studies held on 24 July, 2009. ISBN 9781905739349. Published by Archaeopress in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
