What others said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
At the opening of his lecture on Arabic and the peoples of al-Andalus:
“There is something worth considering: the peoples who live in al-Andalus are very different, from Muslims – Arabs, Berbers and Slavs among them – to Christians and Jews; yet the culture is one, and it is purely Arab. All the elements are devoted to the Arabic language.”
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
وهناك أمرٌ جديرٌ بالاعتبار، وهو أنّ الشعوب التي تسكن الأندلس مختلفةٌ جدّاً من مسلمين – وفيهم عربٌ وبرابرةٌ وصقالبة – إلى نصارى ويهود ولكنّ الثقافة واحدة وهي عربيّةٌ مَحْضة. فجميع العناصر مُولَعةٌ باللغة العربيّة.
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. 394
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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