Since centuries, FuSha (The original pure Arabic) has played two important roles. The first role is the religious, it's the official language in Islam. Secondly, the daily life communications. But over time, Arabic has been affected by historical events and sociolinguistic factors. These events and factors, as well as the development of the spoken language, have led to the evolution of variations of the language. The existence of these variations alongside FuSha has been dubbed «diglossia.» Although Arabic/FuSha still the official language of twenty-one countries, that situation don't recognize the evolution of the living spoken language; and therefore, some international academic institutions don't recognize it as one of the current living languages. So, is Arabic a living language organically, academically and scientifically?

In an attempt to apply Badawi’s research on the five variations of Arabic in Egypt, this book aims to explore the events and factors across the centuries that have led to the current diglossic situation, from the pre Islamic era to the present time. What is the current state of the language, and what is the outlook for its continued organic growth and survival? Briefly, this book attempts to answer the following questions: Is Arabic a Holy language? Why or why not? Where is the real FuSha now? How has the borrowing of foreign words and the adoption of lower and higher varieties - as well as the maintaining of the FuSha for religious needs - allowed the language to survive and cope with modernization? What are the problematic issues in dealing with other varieties of Arabic? What is the role and function of case endings in Arabic in understanding the meaning of sentences? What are the most common pedagogical approaches of Western and Arab linguists? Is Arabic a living language organically and scientifically? So to speak, what features does it have in common with what we might call »Permutations and Combinations of False Dichotomies«? The book concludes with the author’s views on the future prospects of the Arabic Language.