What made it possible to preserve Classical Arabic for so long?
That a language survives for fourteen hundred years, over such a vast area of land, spoken by so many different people, is a miracle in its own right. What has stood against the fragmentation of Classical Arabic into different languages? 1. The presence of the Classical Arabic ‘model’ document – the sacred Quran. The Quran has been read, recited, analyzed and studied by all Muslims throughout the centuries. 2. The establishment of codified rules for Classical Arabic, as well as the great emphasis given to mastering these rules, were instrumental factors in the continued survival of the language.
