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The 53 pages that link to Arabic language, each with the reason it gives.
QuranRelated: The Quran’s original wording is Arabic, shaping its sound, vocabulary, and interpretation.
Islamic Golden AgeRelated: Arabic enabled scholars in distant regions to share texts and technical vocabulary.
Al-AndalusRelated: Arabic became a major language of government and scholarship in Al-Andalus.
Swahili languageCompared with: Arabic influenced Swahili vocabulary but belongs to a different language family.
Arabic scriptRelated: The script developed to write Arabic and remains closely associated with it.
DamascusRelated: Umayyad governance from Damascus helped establish Arabic in imperial administration.
Samanid EmpireCompared with: Arabic remained dominant in religious scholarship even as Persian gained courtly and literary prominence.
BedouinRelated: Bedouin communities speak diverse Arabic dialects, including distinctive regional varieties.
Coptic languageCompared with: Arabic gradually displaced Coptic in daily life while Coptic persisted in worship.
UrduRelated: Arabic-origin words entered Urdu especially through Islamic learning and Persian.
IslamizationRelated: Religious learning spread Arabic texts and vocabulary, though conversion did not always entail adopting Arabic.
Toledo School of TranslatorsRelated: Arabic texts supplied many of the works translated in medieval Toledo.
ArabizationBroader topic: Its adoption is the linguistic core of Arabization.
Hunayn ibn IshaqRelated: Arabic was the principal destination language for many of Hunayn’s translations.
Hausa languageCompared with: Arabic is a frequent historical contact language, but it is not the source of Hausa’s Chadic classification.
Muslim conquest of the LevantRelated: Arabic gained official and cultural prominence in the region over the centuries after conquest.
New PersianRelated: Arabic supplied extensive vocabulary and models of learned expression to New Persian.
Arabic diglossiaNarrower topic: Diglossia describes a recurring pattern within the broader Arabic linguistic landscape.
Early Muslim communityRelated: The community’s scripture and expanding institutions helped establish Arabic across a vast region.
EmirNarrower topic: The title derives from Arabic and retained meanings tied to command.
Gerard of CremonaRelated: Gerard translated Arabic works, requiring access to their technical vocabulary and textual conventions.
Persian alphabetRelated: Arabic writing provided the model from which Persian scribes adapted their alphabet.
Uzbek languageRelated: Arabic loanwords entered Uzbek through Islam, scholarship, and Persian-mediated cultural contact.
Al-Hajjaj ibn YusufRelated: Traditions associate Al-Hajjaj’s administration with efforts to standardize written Arabic and its reading.
Arabic dialectsNarrower topic: The dialects are the everyday spoken varieties within this broader language.
Islam in AfricaRelated: Arabic connects African scholars and worshippers to scripture and transregional Islamic learning.
Musa ibn NusayrRelated: Umayyad administration and the expansion Musa served contributed to Arabic’s growing institutional reach.
Early IslamRelated: Its literary and oral forms carried the revelations and the community’s message.
Maltese languageRelated: Maltese shares inherited vocabulary and grammatical patterns with Arabic varieties.
Nana Asma’uRelated: Arabic was a principal language of Islamic learning and one of Asma’u’s literary languages.
Frequency analysisRelated: Al-Kindi’s method relies on knowing which letters are common in the language being recovered.
Ibn QutaybahRelated: His discussions of language and poetry depended on close knowledge of Arabic usage.
Islamic studiesRelated: Arabic knowledge opens access to foundational texts and their interpretive traditions.
Norman-Arab-Byzantine cultureRelated: Arabic remained a language of learning and governance in Norman Sicily.
Nubian languagesCompared with: Arabic has strongly influenced Nubian vocabulary and language use without being Nubian.
Sindhi languageRelated: Arabic religious and scholarly vocabulary entered Sindhi alongside the spread of Islam.
Sankoré MadrasahRelated: Arabic enabled study of the Qur’an and scholarly works used in Sankoré’s teaching.
TigrinyaCompared with: Arabic has influenced Eritrean language contact but belongs to a different Semitic branch.
University of al-QarawiyyinRelated: Arabic texts and instruction have underpinned much of the institution’s scholarship.
AdmiralRelated: The title's linguistic history runs through Arabic expressions for command at sea.
Al-Hariri of BasraNarrower topic: Its rich vocabulary and grammatical tradition supplied Al-Hariri’s artistic medium.
Al-JabrNarrower topic: Al-jabr’s original meaning and grammatical form belong to Arabic.
Edward William LaneNarrower topic: Lane learned Arabic to a high level and used it throughout his scholarly career.
Ramon LlullRelated: Llull learned Arabic to engage Muslim texts and communicate in missionary work.
Arab studiesRelated: Arabic connects many communities, while its varieties reveal regional and social differences.
Islamic cultureRelated: Qur’anic Arabic connects communities whose everyday languages differ.
René CailliéRelated: Caillié learned Arabic to communicate during his journey through Muslim West Africa.
Abu Hanifa al-DinawariRelated: Arabic was the language through which much of his scientific and linguistic work circulated.
Culture of IraqRelated: Iraqi Arabic is widely spoken, alongside other languages and dialects.
DalilahNarrower topic: The name is associated with an Arabic word meaning “guide” or “proof.”