UID:
edocfu_9960695417102883
Format:
1 online resource (464 p.)
ISBN:
9781575065083
Content:
Essays by 33 colleagues, friends, and students of the Johns Hopkins University Arabist and linguist. Topics include (1) humanism, culture, and literature; (2) Arabic; (3) Aramaic; and (4) Afroasiatic.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Publications by Georg Krotkoff --
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Abbreviations --
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Georg Krotkoff as Scholar and Teacher --
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Part 1 Humanism, Culture, and Literature --
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Inquiry into the Origins of Humanism --
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Humanism and the Language Sciences in Medieval Islam --
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Cosmic Numbers: The Symbolic Design of Ni z a m ÿ ’s Haft Paykar --
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Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse --
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From Revolt to Resignation: The Life of Shaykh Mḥsin Sharāra --
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Sūra as Guidance and Exhortation: The Composition of Sūrat al-Nisā --
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The Hijāb: How a Curtain Became an Institution and a Cultural Symbol --
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The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel and Short Story in Arabic --
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An Arabic Poem in an Israeli Controversy: Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s “Passing Words” --
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Bi-l'Arabī al-faṣīḥ: An Egyptian Play Looks at Contemporary Arab Society --
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Part 2 Arabic --
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Learning Arabic: A Lifetime Commitment --
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The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism --
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Al-Khalīl’s Legacy --
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The Etymology of Muqarnas : Some Observations --
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Egyptian Arabic and Dialect Contact in Historical Perspective --
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On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic --
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Ein arabischer Text aus Constantine (Algerien) --
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Part 3 Aramaic --
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Zur griechischen Neben ü berlieferung im Syrischen --
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Syriac Loanwords in Classical Armenian --
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The Modern Chaldean Pronunciation of Classical Syriac --
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Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 --
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Zum neuaram ä ischen Dialekt von Hassane (Provinz ´ı rnak) --
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A Preliminary List of Aramaic Loanwords in Kurdish --
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The Story of Balaam and His She-Ass in Four Neo-Aramaic Dialects: A Comparative Study of the Translations --
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A Comparative Study of Pet Names in English and Assyrian --
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The Trickle Down Approach --
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Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen --
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Akkadian lišan-u-m , Arabic lišan-u-n : Which Is the Older Form? --
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Part 5 Ancient Egyptian, Ottoman Turkish, and Other Linguistic Matters --
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You Gotta Have Heart --
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The Protean Arabic Abjad --
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A Matter of Inconsistency: Variation of Arabic Loanwords in English --
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The Language and Prose Style of Bostān’s Süleymānnāme --
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Language and Script in Ancient Egypt --
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Contributors --
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Index of Authors
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065083
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781575065083
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