{"id":5331,"date":"2023-06-12T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:54:12","slug":"african-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/06\/12\/african-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"African Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newlinesmag.com\/essays\/in-search-of-african-arabic\/\">Vaughn Rasberry, New Lines Magazine, In Search of African Arabic, 30 September, 202<\/a>1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I missed this article the first time around:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;For more than a millennium, Arabic in Africa facilitated intellectual innovation in fields from mathematics and numerology and astronomy to poetry, theology and jurisprudence. Canvassing this wide Trans-Saharan world, historian John Hunwick calls Arabic \u201cthe Latin of Africa.\u201d&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This did make me think about the online usage of Arabic and linguistic diversity &#8211; it&#8217;s not my field, but definitely worthy of investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaughn Rasberry, New Lines Magazine, In Search of African Arabic, 30 September, 2021 I missed this article the first time around: &#8220;For more than a millennium, Arabic in Africa facilitated intellectual innovation in fields from mathematics and numerology and astronomy to poetry, theology and jurisprudence. Canvassing this wide Trans-Saharan world, historian John Hunwick calls Arabic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,139,371,526,527,275,525,181],"tags":[308,528,529],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-spring","category-arabic","category-east-africa","category-languages","category-languageslinguistics","category-mena","category-sub-saharan-africa","category-west-africa","tag-arabic","tag-languages","tag-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}