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Latin Teachers: Welcome to Latin class, where we hold your yaoi hostage behind millions of weird non-finite forms!
Classical Greek Teachers: Welcome to Classical Greek class, where we hold your yuri hostage behind millions of weird non-finite forms!
Classical Arabic Teachers:
Me: wait let me guess
Classical Arabic Teacher: If it's any consolation, this time they're mostly verbal nouns.
ancient languages summer courses
the belfast summer school in ancient languages is offering courses in beginning, intermediate, and advanced Latin and Greek, as well as Biblical Hebrew, Classical Arabic, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and Old English, both in person at Queens University Belfast and online. prices range from GBP 75 to GBP 145 for one-two weeks of classes. information can be found here.
Munir Bashir - Makam Bayat
I would put a list of what I loooooved about the first Moonknight episode but honestly, the only thing going through my mind right now is that Abd El Halim and Nagat (Classical Arabic singers) canonically exist in Marvel. They really said "let's represent Egypt to the max" and I am so fucking here for it. I don't think I've ever been happier!!!
Yemeni architecture العمارة اليمنية
Part of my project of early medieval plant alphabets. This shows all the letters of the Arabic Abjad ('alphabet') with plants that start with that letter. Similar to how we now teach 'a is for appl...
I ‘finished’ the Arabic section of my cards!
Researching illuminated manuscripts to find art I could mimic has been my favourite part of this project. Discovering that birchbark is less porous than paper and needed forever to dry enough to stop smearing was definitely my least favourite. Also, the beautiful mastic tree I drew on THE WRONG CARD. But pomegranate trees (the centre card on the 7th row) are actually that silly looking, and this gives me joy.
Other thoughts:
Ahhhh, I love Arabic grammarians.
This is from Arabic for Nerds. Advanced! (Gotta say, I’m #TeamalKisai on this one, though. But maybe that’s my English grammar influence.)
On a more basic level, AfN also recommends copying out a few sentences of Arabic text every day, just to get used to the rhythm of complex sentences, and for general reading facility. This seems sensible. (And more manageable than arguing about the case of pronouns.)
Hello! Can you tell me how much MSA differs from the Arabic that is used in the Quran?
Hi, anon.
I wasn’t able to find some references but not enough resources to make a very detailed analysis but I’ll share with you what I know and found.
Classical Arabic is the Arabic that was spoken by the Arab tribes in Jahiliya (Pre-Islamic) and also after Islam and with time, this Classical Arabic has developed into the Modern Standard Arabic, which is the formal Arabic that is being used nowadays (mostly in writing).
This site shared an interesting explanation :
Quranic or Classical Arabic is based on the medieval dialects of Arab tribes. The sentence structure is the same as is used in the modern standard Arabic used today. The groupings, context and some of the words used are vastly different. There are some minor differences in grammar and punctuation of words between the Quranic and modern standard versions of Arabic.
Although I think that it would be better (and easier to understand) to speak about Quranic Arabic and Classical Arabic as separate things instead of speak of them interchangeably.
Even among Arabs who used the Classical Arabic, there used to be some tribal dialects and regional differences in the pronunciation and word choice (although unfortunately, the dialectal differences between the different tribes wasn’t well documented and preserved).
The Qur’anic Arabic which is the version of Arabic used in Holly Qur’an, is very eloquent and complex but it was still understandable for the people who lived in that era. The reason for this is, as mentioned here, “the Holly Quran was composed from the same words and languages that were used by the Arabs from the different tribes, but it was inimitable with its expressions and eloquent meanings.”
If someone wants to add or has any relevant information that will be interesting for us to know please do but be mindful that this is just a post about the language.
