Introduction
The geography and demography of pre-Islamic Arabia
Sources of the study of Arabic. Trust worthy data
Grammarians and the dialects
Pre-Islamic Arabic. The pre-Islamic linguistic situation
Pre-Islamic dialects
Signs of development in pre-Islamic Arabic
The dual paradigm
The case system
Arabic after Islam and Diaspora. The influence of Islam and the conquests
Arabicization
The dialects
Dialect division
Classical Arabic. From pre-classical to classical
The functional load of classical Arabic
Conclusion.