- A Southwest Semitic language spoken originally in Arabia and now also in Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, and parts of Northern Africa. Contemporary dialects differ somewhat from the form of Arabic found in the Qur'an, which is now referred to as "Classical Arabic."
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- Qur'an
- 'Ali,
'Abdullah Yusuf. The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an.
Beltsville, Maryland: Amana, 1996.
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- Dictionary
- Lane,
Edward William. Arabic-English Lexicon,
2 vols. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1984.
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- Grammar
- Fischer,
Wolfdietrich . A Grammar of Classical Arabic,
3d ed., trans. Jonathan Rodgers, Yale Language Series. New
Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2002.
- Thackston, Wheeler M. An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the Language. Bethesda, Maryland: IBEX, 1994.
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