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HarryT 
I originally wrote '. . . various Afroasiatic languages and dialects . . .'.
Of which Coptic is one, but so too are the Semitic languages - including Arabic and Hebrew. So I was in a dilemma, a Catch 22
I'd quite like to see a snippet where Arabic is used in the book's text along with a chapter number. I could have missed it when I flicked though the book.
Maybe there's a reference to the Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) libretto, that got translated to Arabic. But its almost always performed as a ballet.
I should read the book, but its a long way down the pile
BR