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Chapter 13 - Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey

from Part III - Social and Cultural Connections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2022

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Eugenio Garosi
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Jelle Bruning ,
Janneke H. M. de Jong  and
Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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Summary

When the Arab armies conquered a territory of more than 13 million square miles extending between the Atlantic Ocean and present-day Afghanistan, they paved the way for the formation of new webs of transregional interaction. One of the most manifest traces of substratal cultural influences on the formation of the early Islamic imperial polity are the lexical borrowings that characterize Arabic documentary sources.1 These loanwords and foreign words2 not only reveal aspects of the historical development of Arabic but are also indicative of the wider formative environment of scribal practices in the early caliphate.

This study surveys the loan vocabulary in Arabic documentary evidence as an indicator of the social geography of the early Islamic empire.3 The question of intentionality or, in other words, the extent to which the use of loanwords in Arabic documents mirrors a conscious employment of foreign technical terminology will, however, remain beyond the scope of this contribution.

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Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE
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Save book to Google Drive

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