Borrut, Antoine
(ed.)
Ceballos, Manuela
(ed.)
Vacca, Alison
(ed.)
Editorial: Brepols Publishers
Colección: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; 2
Número de páginas: 500 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-01-2024
EAN: 9782503603018
ISBN: 978-2-503-60301-8
Precio (sin IVA): 137,50 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 143,00 €
Traditional accounts of Arabicization have often favoured linear narratives of language change instead of delving into the diversity of peoples, processes, and languages that informed the fate of Arabic in the early Islamic world. Using a wide range of case studies from the caliphal centres at Damascus and Baghdad to the provinces of Arabia, Egypt, Armenia, and Central Asia, this book reconsiders these prevailing narratives by analysing language change in different regions of the early Islamic world through the lens of multilingualism and language change. This volume complicates the story of Arabic by building on the work of scholars in Late Antiquity who have abundantly demonstrated the benefits of embracing multilingualism as a heuristic framework.