Assalam alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, All praise be to Allah! It is no wonder that Arabic, the language of the Holy Qur'an, the source language of Islamic jurisprudence and religious literature, and one of the 5 most widely spoken languages in the world, with approximately 290 million native speakers would have captured the attention of many Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Arabic(or al 'arabiyyah in Arabic) is the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century and its modern descendants. The language is spoken in a wide arc stretching across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. The literary language, called Modern Standard Arabic or Literary Arabic, is the only official form of Arabic. It is used in most written documents as well as in formal spoken occasions, such as lectures and news broadcasts. Apart from the Modern Standard Arabic, which is based on the Classical Arabic ( اللغة العربية التراثية al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah al-turāthīyah ) of th...