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Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt N. Haeri
Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt
N. Haeri
Classical Arabic is the official language of all Arab states although it is not spoken as a mother tongue by any group of Arabs. For more than a century and a half, writers and institutions have been engaged in struggles to modernize Classical Arabic in order to render it into a language of contemporary life.
192 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 24, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780312238988 |
| Publishers | Palgrave USA |
| Pages | 184 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 16 mm · 331 g |