Motto
It is in this language that their exchanges on science take place, their conversations, their teachings, and discussions; it is in it that their quills drip onto the page, in it that the documents and decisions of their judges are written. They are thus clothed in the Arabic language—no matter where they go, they do not part themselves from it.
ABŪ L-QĀSIM AZ-ZAMAḪŠARĪ: al-Mufaṣṣal. Ed. by J.P. Broch, 1859, p. 2, last line–p. 3, line 2