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  2. Classical Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, elevated prose and oratory, and is also the liturgical language of Islam.

  3. Modern Standard Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Arabic is also spoken by people of Arab descent outside the Arab world when people of Arab descent speaking different dialects communicate to each other. As there is a prestige or standard dialect of vernacular Arabic, speakers of standard colloquial dialects code-switch between these particular dialects and MSA. [citation needed]

  4. Arab studies - Wikipedia

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    Al-Battani was an Arab astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician.. Arab studies or Arabic studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Arabs and Arab World.It consists of several disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, historiography, archaeology, cultural studies, economics, geography, international relations, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, political ...

  5. Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani - Wikipedia

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    Tarikh al-Naqd al-Adabi 'inda al-'Arab, Naqd al-Shi'r min al-Qarn al-Thani hattá al-Qarn al-Thamin al-Hijri. History of Arabic Literary Criticism (A comprehensive study of Arabic literary criticism from the second century to the eighth century AH. It covers most of the literary critics from al-Asma'ei to Ibn-Khaldoun.). Beirut: Dr al-Amnah.

  6. Lughat Al Arab - Wikipedia

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    Lughat Al Arab (Arabic: لغة العرب, lit. 'The Language of the Arabs') was a monthly linguistic and history magazine which was published in Baghdad between 1911 and 1931 with a twelve-year interruption.

  7. Arabic literature - Wikipedia

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    Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.The Arabic word used for literature is Adab, which comes from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment.

  8. Write Down, I Am an Arab - Wikipedia

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    In Point of View, Pat Mullen had nothing but praise for the film, saying that "Write offers an appropriately poetic portrait of this influential voice." [4] Amal Eqeiq, in the Journal of Middle East Studies, says that the film presents Darwish in "a paradox of recognition and erasure", opining that the film's main subtexts are that the film is intended for an Israeli audience, and that it ...

  9. Graeco-Arabic translation movement - Wikipedia

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    The translation movement in the Arab World was greatly supported under the Islamic rule, and led to the translation of materials to Arabic from different languages like middle Persian. The translation movement was instigated by the Barmakids. The second Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (r.