An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions

Second Revised & Expanded Edition
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-51369-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 385 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The second edition covers topics in
script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains a chrestomathy and a glossary of over 1000 Safaitic lexical items.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al-Jallad, Ahmad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012), Harvard University, is Universitair Hoofddocent in Islamic Origins at the University of Groningen. He specializes in the epigraphy, languages, and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia and early Islam, and directs epigraphic survey projects in Jordan and Saudi Arabia.