Arabic in Chains

Structural Problems and Artificial Barriers

by Robert Marzari

Book cover: Arabic in Chains

Extent: 170 pages

Publisher: Schiler & Mucke GbR Verlag

Subjects: Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Language & Linguistics

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(April 2006)

ISBN: 9783899301199

Price: $27.00

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What distinguishes Marzari’s work is his ability to explain complicated matters in clear and even entertaining language. Linguists often cut a poor figure here, given their propensity to gallop non-stop through the brushwood of grammar. Not so Marzari. He illustrates the potentials and limits of a language that over 300 million Muslims in the Middle East call their mother tongue, aside from the many others elsewhere in Africa as well as in Asia, who recite Arabic as the language of the Qur’an.

  • By (author) Robert Marzari