The Damascus Psalm Fragment : Middle Arabic and the Legacy of Old Higazi

The Damascus Palm Fragment investigates Arabic's transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It presents a scenario for the emergence of standard Classical Arabic as the literary language of the late eighth century and beyond.

• | : Ahmad Al-Jallad
• | Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• | Publication Date: May 30, 2020
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1614910529
• | ISBN-13: 9781614910527