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Syriac and the Qurʾān
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Syriac was an Aramaic dialect spoken by Christians in and around Arabia during the time of the
Qurʾān’s appearance. It originated in northern Mesopotamia and Syria but became the
lingua franca of the late antique Near East (ca. second-seventh centuries C.E.), and the “golden age” of Syriac literature flourished from the fourth to the seventh centuries (Brock,
A brief outline, 9-21). Syriac was the official language of the West Syrian (Jacobite) and East Syrian (Nestorian) churches, while the closely related dialect of Christian Palestinian Aramaic was used by the Chalcedonian…
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Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān
Date:
2018-08-14