Langue et littérature arabes classiques / / André Miquel.

• Superior document: Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France ; 77
• VerfasserIn: Miquel, André
• Place / Publishing House: France : : Collège de France,, 1977
• Year of Publication: 1977
• Language: French
• Series: Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France ; 77.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (28 pages) :; digital file(s).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Chronologically speaking, the Koran created neither the Arabic language nor the Arabic letters. And yet, in the formidable brilliance of his thunderclap and by the infinitely multiplied echoes that he unleashed, he renewed, structured, diffused the old language, exalted his literature and created, in the full sense of the term this time, a civilization. The fundamental text of Arab literature affirms the rights and duties of mutual understanding among Arabs; he imposes that the nobility, in matters of knowledge, will pass through the only language which confers it and he will assign to his future expressions the obligation to be based on this voice of old Arabia which he has brought to its supreme form: literal, literary, classical Arabic. Classical Arabic language and literature are thus the sign, the mirror and the consciousness of a world which wants to perceive itself as global and one, and whose history can be read through theirs.