His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and Chairman of the Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah, met on Tuesday morning, at his Literary Council at Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi Centre for Gulf Studies (Dara), members of the scientific committee of the ALECSO-Sharjah Award for Language and Lexical Studies, award guests from managers and supervisors of language academies in the Arab world.
Welcoming the guests, His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah briefed them about Dara and its Literary Council, which was established to address cultural, literary, historical, Arab and Islamic issues and topics, before His Highness directed his speech to the emergence and origin of Dara, consistently and chronologically tracing its foundation, supporting his talk with Quranic texts as he believes the Noble Quran is the greatest book we can invoke in this research.
His Highness also clarified the sites of the most important metropolitan areas inhabited by people in the Arabian Peninsula, and in the north, such as Dumah Al Jandal, Midian, Eilat, Iram, Madina, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Al Tur, and Petra. He also made mention of the most prominent tribes inhabited those places such as the Nabateans, the Surrealists, the Phoenicians, and the Arameans. “Each of those peoples had their own dialect that they considered as sources of their strength, and when they migrated to Makka, their dialects were united into one language, which is the Quraish language, which indicates that they were close in essence and origin,” His Highness expounded.
His Highness further elucidated that what he has reached is a personal effort that is related to his historical research, which proves that all of those dialects date back to the peoples of Ād and Thamud, who moved from the Homerite in the southern Arabian Peninsula to Al Madinah Al Munawwarah, and from there to the north of the Arabian Peninsula and The Levant. He elaborated that those Nabatean, Surreal, Phoenician, and Aramaic dialects are only derived from of the Arabic Homerite dialect, and so is the Hebrew.
His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah reviewed, before the attendees, a table with the various forms of the Musnad letter, including Al Jazm and Al Nabat, to confirm the extent of the rapprochement between them, pointing to the reference of each letter and the way it is drawn.
His Highness concluded his speech by urging the attendees to the need to return to the history of Homerite, as it is the incubator and origin of dialects so that we can rapproach the utterances and reach a definitive truth of the history of the emergence of the Arabic language and its origin, and that the next meeting’s topic would revolve around etymology.