Learning the Language of Qur’an

Arabic is the language of millions of people living in the Middle East and
North and North-East Africa. It is also read by more than one billion Muslims
throughout the world and understood and studied by their religious scholars as it
is the language of their sacred book, the Quran. It was first developed by people
living in the north-west and central region of the Arabian Peninsula. Ancient
Arabic literature which has come down to us consists mainly of poetry and short
compositions that originated in the sixth and seventh centuries. The Quran was
revealed in this language and is the matchless embodiment of all the beauties of
that language. After the Quran there has been little change in Arabic grammar;
Arabic literature still looks to it as the measure of its excellence. Spoken Arabic
today differs from country to country, but written Arabic is the same throughout
the Arab world.