This important book will be an ideal text for all those wishing to acquire an understanding or develop their knowledge of the Arabic language.

This Liber Amicorum discusses topics on the history of Arabic grammar, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic dialects, domains in which Kees Versteegh plays a leading role.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The book highlights the characteristics of a tradition outside the Western mainstream with an independent approach to the phenomenon of language and thus stimulates new ideas about the history of linguistics.

The articles in this volume combine modern linguistic insights with the theories of Arab grammarians.

This book is concerned with the notions of pidginization and creolization and the role of these processes of language learning in the history of the Arabic language.

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.).

In this volume the English translation is presented of the treatise on linguistic explanation by the 10th-century Arab grammarian az-Za?????, one of the most original thinkers of the Arabic tradition.