And how do you know that Hamza Yusuf speaks classical Arabic?

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jul 25, 2007 at 08:23

You do not know any Arabic so how do you know that? And what on earth is your "classical Arabic"? Is this Quranic Arabic, Middle Arabic or modern classical Arabic or is it let us say modern Egyptian classical Arabic? And what makes Arabic classical, whatever that is?

To the readers interested in the history of the Arabic language I suggest reading Kees Verteegh's "The Arabic language"...

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