The Development of Arabic as a Written Language

Contents

Preface

Christian Julien Robin – Introduction — The development of Arabic as a written language

M.C.A. Macdonald – Ancient Arabia and the written word

Robert Hoyland – Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia

Laïla Nehmé – A glimpse of the development of the Nabataean script into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material

‘Alī Ibrāhīm Al-Ghabbān – The evolution of the Arabic script in the period of the Prophet MuΉammad and the Orthodox Caliphs in the light of new inscriptions discovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Pierre Larcher – In search of a standard: dialect variation and New Arabic features in the oldest Arabic written documents

François Déroche – The codex Parisino-petropolitanus and the Ήijāzī scripts

Gregor Schoeler – The relationship of literacy and memory in the second/eighth century

Venetia Porter – The Use of the Arabic script in magic

M.C.A. Macdonald – The Old Arabic graffito at Jabal Usays: A new reading of line 1

Papers read at the Special Session

Index

Epigraphic Index