What others said about Arabic Read in the original
“Arabic literature is the enduring monument of a civilization, not of a people. […] Yet even when Arabic was in the Eastern provinces displaced from its supremacy by the rise of a Persian literature, it maintained, and still maintains, its position as the universal language of Islamic theology, philosophy, and science.”
Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb
1895–1971
Scottish Arabist, professor at Oxford and Harvard.
In Arabic
الأَدَبُ العَرَبِيُّ أَثَرٌ بَاقٍ لِحَضَارَةٍ، لَا لِشَعْبٍ بِعَيْنِهِ… وَحَتَّى حِينَ أُزِيحَتِ العَرَبِيَّةُ فِي الأَقَالِيمِ الشَّرْقِيَّةِ عَنْ سِيَادَتِهَا بِنُهُوضِ أَدَبٍ فَارِسِيٍّ، فَقَدْ حَافَظَتْ- وَلَا تَزَالُ تُحَافِظُ- عَلَى مَكَانَتِهَا لُغَةً جَامِعَةً لِعِلْمِ الكَلَامِ الإِسْلَامِيِّ وَالفَلْسَفَةِ وَالعِلْم.
Source
Arabic Literature: An Introduction, ch. 1, London: Oxford University Press, 1926, p. 5
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