The Most Noble of People Quotes

“Like Ibn Ḥazm, Ibn Maḍā’ sees language as a practical tool for communication and the study of language as valuable only so far as it furthers the goal of communication.”
― Jessica Coope, The Most Noble of People: Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain

“Arabic was the language of God’s final and complete revelation to human beings, and if people spoke differently now, it was not because Arabic had changed but because people were speaking incorrectly.”
― Jessica Coope, The Most Noble of People: Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain