The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics III, contains twelve studies of grammatical theories from the earliest period of Arabic grammar (end 8th century C.E.) and their reception in the later grammatical literature.

Georgine Ayoub is professor of Arabic linguistics at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris. She specializes in theoretical linguistics and Arabic linguistic thought. She published La question de la phrase nominale en arabe littéraire (1996) and co-edited La langue et le Sacré (2017).
Kees Versteegh is emeritus professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Nijmegen. He specializes in historical linguistics and the history of linguistics. He published The Arabic language (revised ed. 2014) and was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics (2006-2009).
Contributors are Georgine Ayoub, Ramzi Baalbaki, Michael G. Carter, Jean N. Druel, Manuela B.M. Giolfo, Wilfrid Hodges, Almog Kasher, Aryeh Levin, Arik Sadan, Haruko Sakaedani, Manuel Sartori, Zeinab Taha, and Kees Versteegh.