Editing PERF 558 (section)

==Historical interest==
This papyrus makes it possible to document the concomitant existence of two states of the Arabic language.{{sfn|Larcher|2010}} Indeed, the name Abu Qir, which does not correspond to classical Arabic. This name is the Arabization of a Greek name Apa Kyros. For Pierre Larcher, it is not the trace of an old style which evolves towards a new "neo-Arabic" form but, conversely, the trace of the linguistic policy of Abd al-Malik which makes Arabic the official language, tries to homogenize the Koranic ductus and classicizes and promotes the old Arabic type. It is only later that Ibn Abu Qir will appear as a fault.{{sfn|Larcher|2014}}