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1 online resource (488 pages) :
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4 illustrations (some colour)
ISBN:
9781783749430
Series Statement:
Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures [volume 9]
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"Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proximity to the vernacular that cannot be encountered in any other surviving historical Arabic material, and thus provide unprecedented access to Arabic language history. This rich material remains very little explored. Traditionally, scholarship on Arabic has focussed overwhelmingly on the literature of the various Golden Ages between the 8th and 13th centuries, whereas texts from the 15th century onwards have often been viewed as corrupted and not worthy of study. The lack of interest in Ottoman Arabic culture and literacy left these sources almost completely neglected in university courses. 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. Split into a Handbook and a Reader section, the book provides a historical introduction to Ottoman literacy, translation studies, vernacularisation processes, language policy and linguistic pluralism. The second part contains excerpts from more than forty sources, edited and translated by a diverse network of scholars. The material presented includes a large number of yet unedited texts, such as Christian Arabic letters from the Prize Paper collections, mercantile correspondence and notebooks found in the Library of Gotha, and Garshuni texts from archives of Syriac patriarchs."--Publisher's website.
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Available through Open Book Publishers.
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At head of front cover: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures.
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At foot of cover: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
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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 ʿAṭṭān 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 Dafʿ al-iṣr ʿan 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 ʿAbdallah 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 ʿAzmī Bēk, Daftardār of the ʾIyāla (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 Saʿīd al-ʾUsṭuwānī (1840-1861) / Jérôme Lentin ; 30. Arabia: A Letter from Abdallah Ḥiṣānī to ʿAbdallah Bāšā (1855) / Jérôme Lentin ; 31. Excerpts from Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ's Abū Naḍḍāra Zarʾa and ʿAbd 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-ʾAkram al-Marḥūm Harmān al-ʾAlmānī 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.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Includes samples of text in Ottoman Turkish (Arabic script).
Language:
English
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0208
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