FEAT: What Is the Safaitic Script? And What Does It Teach Us About the Arabic Language?

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PRESENTER

Rami Abou-Khalil

ORIGINAL CITY 

NYC

Original Date

September 30, 2018

Description

Coming Soon!

Sources & Future References

• Journal on Arabian epigraphy published by Leiden University http://arabianepigraphicnotes.org/

• The online corpus for the inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (you can find the whole database here) http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/index.php/safaitic

• Ahmad Al-Jallad’s twitter (no really it’s amazing)

  https://twitter.com/safaitic?lang=en https://15minutehistory.org/2016/04/27/episode-82-what-writing-can-tell-us-about-the-arabs-before-islam/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7p4TYe-VMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n39uJ9yx6k

• Michael Macdonald lecture on script and identity in pre-islamic arabia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-pVJN9G7s

• http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1235.htm  

• https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-new-history-of-arabia-written-in-stone

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