Abstract
Chronologically speaking, the Koran created neither the Arabic language nor Arabic letters. And yet, with the tremendous force of its thunderclap and the infinitely multiplied echoes it unleashed, it renewed, structured and disseminated the old language, exalted its literature and created - in the full sense of the word this time - a civilization.
The fundamental text of Arabic literature affirms the rights and duties of mutual understanding between Arabs ; it imposes that nobility, in matters of knowledge, will pass through the only language that confers it, and it will assign to its future expressions the obligation of basing themselves on this voice of old Arabia that it has brought to its supreme form : literary, classical Arabic. Classical Arabic language and literature are thus the sign, mirror and conscience of a world that sees itself as global and one, and whose history can be read through theirs.
