Did the koran alter the arabic language?
No the Quran did not alter the arabic language it preserved it, and its grammar. The Quran was revealed at the time when the Arabic language was at its peak. The Quran was revered by the Greatest Orators and Poets of that time, it was unchallendge in its composition and elloquence. It is the standard of the Arabic language it self, which conformed to the science of the southern arabic language spoken in the time of Muhammads that remained more stable and closest to the original semitic language. http://www.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T664, http://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/ling ... rabic.html , http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/lang_d ... islam.html , http://arabworld.nitle.org/introduction.php?module_id=1 , http://www.student.virginia.edu/~arabweb/language.htm , http://www.al-islam.org/Seal/13.htm .
Did it affect the rules of the arabic language?
It standardized it, which does not mean it altered it. The reference sites above by the Professors, Institutes, even Christian scholars confirm this.
Did it add words to the arabic language?
No. There are words in the Quran which are arabicized that have NO ARABIC ROOT WORD which only make up 1% of the Quran, the 99% majority of the Quranic words all have arabic root words which are of semetic origin shared by the Semetic family of lanuguages .The total vocabulary of words in the Quran is 1,500 which make up 77,943 of the number of words used in the Quran all together http://www.zikr.org/fast/vocabularyofquran.htm . A Christian list of 24-30 words are criticized as borrowed or foreign words. As for my self I looked into these words, to the contrary, most of them are derived from arabic root words, the form of its usage appears only for the first time in the Quran which could not be found in pre-islamic literature drove them to conclude these words are foreign or borrowed from another language. Where the lack of research comes in is did arabic speaking Chrisitains and Jews use these words ? If no, how do you know this ? In order to prove other wise you must produce evidence from arabic speaking Jews and Christian literature dating before and during the time of Muhammad that uses other words. The Strongest evidence of literature is the Quran cause where these words are mentioned they are addressing the Arabic speaking Jews, Chrisitians, Sabians, and Pagans in Muhammad's time that he in encountered whom were already acquinted with the jargon in which they understood clearly.
Once you have found out the answers to these questions you will have a clearer understanding of your classical arabic.
Do you think you are speaking to a sunday school student of Arabic ? Please dont under estimate me, I know more Arabic than you can Fathom. If you ever wanna hear me speak Arabic and converse with Arabs them selves you can always come and hear my lectures on Yahoo Islamic Chat:9. I go by the Yahoo ID: DunleepX .
The problem I see with you which I have noticed is that your form of research and learning is higly relied and schooled on Christian criticism rather than, and again I would say it, from the PROFESSIONALS of the Arabic Language and the Semetic Language it self. I know where your form of thinking is coming from and it is not SCIENITIFIC by any means but strickle a passive view.
Liberate Goes off again into another topic.
Your posts now go off into another direction. Any person who reads this with sense will see it. Now you have gone off in full assualt on the religion of islam deviating from the topic of this forum "The moon god - al - ilah". What does the rest of that stuff that follows after your last post that I answered have to do with the topic ? If people dont see your deviation then something must be mentally wrong them. However, I will answer your "off the topic criticism" on another board for a new topic " Christianity v.s. Islam " where I would be more than glad to exert censure. http://www.jesus-christ-forums.com/home/viewtopic ... 3319#33319
Alllaah not the Moon God Hubal
We have establish one thing here on this post which you failed to prove other wise is that Alllaah is NOT the Moon God Hubal and was never viewed by pagan Arabs of having no assocciation with any Idol that you so aledgedly claim. Also, there was a new discovery made by an Archeologist which follows :
Recently Father Pecerillo, a famous Franciscan Archiologist, found morethan twenty churches in Madaba at the south of Jordan. From the Forth Century we found houses in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine with this inscriptionin Arabic :"Bism El-Lah al Rahman al Rahim" that showed that Christians were the first to use this name so as to indicate their beliefin the Holy Trinity, more than two hundred years before Islam.
http://www.al-bushra.org/arbhrtg/arbxtn04.htm
"Bism El-Lah al Rahman al Rahim" (Arab Christian) and " Bism illah irRahman irRahim "(Quranic) both mean " In the name of Alllaah(properly spelled) The most compasionate The most Merciful", where the name Allah is literally, USED.