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An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
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This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria...
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17 December 2026

This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The second edition contains a detailed chapter on the origins of the Safaitic writing tradition and its raison d'être. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains a chrestomathy and a glossary of over 1000 Safaitic lexical items.
Price: $209.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
Publication Date:
17 December 2026
ISBN: 9789004513693
Format: Hardcover
Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012), Harvard University, is the Sofia Chair of Arabic at The Ohio State University. He is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language. He has published widely on the languages, writing systems, history, and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East, and directs epigraphic survey projects in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Oman.