Sacred Language, Ordinary People
Subtitle: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780312238988
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Social & cultural anthropology; Sociolinguistics; Archaeology / Anthropology; Arabic; Religion; Egypt; Anthropology - General; General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Arabic language; Dialects; Social aspects; Variation
First sentence: Most world religions have produced exegetic traditions centrally preoccupied with the language of their holy texts.