A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic : Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam
This volume offers the most comprehensive linguistic analysis to date of Vatican Arabic MS 13, a late 9th/early 10th-century Arabic Gospel manuscript. Combining meticulous quantitative study with wide-ranging comparative evidence, this book provides an in-depth examination of the manuscript's orthog...
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2026
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