Echoes of Al-Andalus: Arabic Contact & the Language of Muslim Spain with Br. Ahmad Hamza
How does a language survive, adapt, or shift when it meets another? In our first ever session of Threads of Knowledge, Br. Ahmad Hamza investigates this question through the lens of Muslim Spain. A 4th-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at Boston University specializing in language contact and variation, Br. Hamza details the linguistic interaction in Al-Andalus. Listen and learn in on this interactive session where we dive into the forces that drove language change in one of history’s most culturally rich regions.