What others said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
In the same lecture, after naming the Christians and Jews of al-Andalus who wrote in Arabic:
“From what we have set out we may clearly conclude that Arabic is the ideal of the literary language in the fifth century [AH], for all the peoples and elements of al-Andalus use it with a firm desire that no one disputes.”
Henri Pérès
1890–1983
French scholar of Arabic at the University of Algiers, author of La poésie andalouse en arabe classique au XIe siècle.
In Arabic
ممّا أسلفنا نستدلّ جليّاً أنّ اللغة العربيّة هي المَثَلُ الأعلى للغة الأدبيّة في القرن الخامس. فإنّ جميع الشعوب والعناصر في الأندلس تستعملها برغبةٍ أكيدةٍ لا منازعَ فيها.
Source
al-Lugha al-ʿarabiyya wa-sukkān al-Andalus fī al-qurūn al-wusṭā (lecture), Damascus: Majallat al-Majmaʿ al-ʿIlmī al-ʿArabī, vol. 19, part 9, 1944, p. 405
The English is ours, from the reported Arabic.
He gave the lecture at the Arab Academy in Damascus on 12 May 1944, and it was printed in Arabic in the Academy's journal; we found no published French original. The hamzas the print drops are restored; the English is ours.
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