Arabic
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Arabic is a Central Semitic language that was first spoken in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the lingua franca of the Arab world.
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Quotes[edit]
- In classical Arabic and in the other classical languages of Islam there are no pairs of terms corresponding to lay and ecclesiastical, spiritual and temporal, secular and religious, because these pairs of words express a Christian dichotomy which has no equivalent in the world of Islam.
- Bernard Lewis, "The Return of Islam" (1976), Commentary
External links[edit]
Encyclopedic article on Arabic on Wikipedia