UID:
almahu_9949281352602882
Format:
1 online resource (490 pages)
ISBN:
1-78374-943-1
Series Statement:
Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures ; v.10
Content:
This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way.
Note:
Introduction / Esther-Miriam Wagner I. HANDBOOK. 1. Vernacularisation in the Ottoman Empire: Is Arabic the Exception that Proves the Rule? / Michiel Leezenberg ; 2. From Means to Goal: Auxiliary Disciplines in the Ottoman Madrasa Curriculum / Necmettin Kızılkaya ; 3. On the Order of the Sciences for He Who Wants to Learn Them / Guy Burak ; 4. Rumi Authors, the Arabic Historiographical Tradition, and the Ottoman Dawla/Devlet / Guy Burak ; 5. Arabic Grammar Books in Ottoman Istanbul: The South Asian Connection / Christopher D. Bahl ; 6. Bastards and Arabs / E. Khayyat II. READER. 1. Bodl. Ms. Heb. C. 72/18: A Letter by Isaac Bayt ʻAṭṭān to Moses B. Judah (1480s) / Dotan Arad and Esther-Miriam Wagner ; 2. The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community / Benjamin Hary ; 3. Appointment Deed of a Cantor in the Karaite Community, Cairo (1575) / Dotan Arad ; 4. Aharon Garish, Metsaḥ Aharon / Naḥem Ilan ; 5. Kitāb Hazz al-Quḥūf (1600s) / Humphrey Taman Davies ; 6. A Weaver's Notebook from Aleppo (10th/16th century) / Boris Liebrenz and Kristina Richardson ; 7. Selections from Arabic Garshūnī Manuscripts in the British Library / Michael Erdman ; 8. Excerpt from Yūsuf al-Maġribī's Dafʻ al-iṣr ʻan kalām ahl Miṣr (1606) / Liesbeth Zack ; 9. Lebanon: Chronicle of al-Ṣafadī (early 17th century [?]) / Jérôme Lentin ; 10. A Jew's Testimony Regarding a Statement Made in His Presence by a Muslim, Testified on Monday 20th Kislev 5418 (1657) / Werner Diem ; 11. A Jew's Testimony Regarding a Statement Made in His Presence by a Muslim (1681) / Werner Diem ; 12. A Basra Passover Haggadah with Judaeo-Arabic Translation (ca. 1700) / Omer Shafran ; 13. Qahwa 'Coffee' (16th-17th centuries) / Ghayde Ghraowi ; 14. Egypt: Damurdāšī's Chronicle of Egypt (first half of 18th century) / Jérôme Lentin ; 15. Matenadaran Collection MS No.1751: A Medical Work (1726) / Ani Avetisyan ; 16. A Clerical Letter by Rafael al-Ṭūḵī from the Prize Papers Collections (1758) / Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed ; 17. A Christian Mercantile Letter from the Prize Papers Collections (1759) / Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed ; 18. Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb, Riḥlat al-Shammās Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb ilā baldat Istanbūl (1764/65) / Feras Krimsti ; 19. Syria 1: Chronicle of Ibn al-Ṣiddīq (1768) / Jérôme Lentin ; 20. A Letter Transmitted by Ambassador Hajj Mahdī Bargash from Sultan Muḥammad Bin ʻAbdallah to Sultan Abdul Ḥamīd (1789 CE) / Ahmed Ech-Charfi ; 21. Arab Merchant Letters from the Gotha Collection of Arabic Manuscripts / Boris Liebrenz ; 22. A Judaeo-Arabic Letter from the Prize Papers Collection, HCA 32/1208/126.2 (1796) / Matthew Dudley ; 23. The Cairo-Ramla Manuscripts, or the Ramle KAR, 13 (1800s) / Olav Ørum ; 24. A 19th-Century Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narrative / Magdalen M. Connolly ; 25. Libya 1: Ḥasan al-Faqīh Ḥasan's Chronicle Al-Yawmiyyāt al-Lībiyya (early 19th century) Download Jérôme Lentin ; 26. Libya 2: Letter from Ġūma al-Maḥmūdī (1795-1858) to ʻAzmī Bēk, Daftardār of the ʼIyāla (Province) of Tripoli (undated) Download Jérôme Lentin 27. T-S NS 99.38 (1809) / Geoffrey Khan and Esther-Miriam Wagner ; 28. Rylands Genizah Collection A 803 (1825) / Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed ; 29. Syria 2: Chronicle of Muḥammad Saʻīd al-ʼUsṭuwānī (1840-1861) / Jérôme Lentin ; 30. Arabia: A Letter from Abdallah Ḥiṣānī to ʻAbdallah Bāšā (1855) / Jérôme Lentin ; 31. Excerpts from Yaʻqūb Ṣanūʻ's Abū Naḍḍāra Zarʼa and ʻAbd Allāh al-Nadīm's al-Ustāḏ / Liesbeth Zack ; 32. A Disgruntled Bishop: A Garshūnī Letter from Bishop Dinḥā of Midyat to Patriarch Peter III / George Kiraz ; 33. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Jarādī: Sīrat al-Ḵawāja al-ʼAkram al-Marḥūm Harmān al-ʼAlmānī Download Alex Bellem and G. Rex Smith ; 34. Ora ve-Simḥa (1917) / Esther-Miriam Wagner ; 35. A 'Mandæo-Arabic' Letter from Lady Drower's Correspondence / Charles Häberl ; 36. An Anecdote about Juḥā (1920s) / Tania María García-Arévalo -- References.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78374-942-3
Language:
English
