Author : John A. Haywood
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Arabic language
ISBN :
Author : John A. Haywood
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Arabic language
ISBN :
Author : Walter N. Hakala
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0231542127
Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical principles," the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Recovering texts by overlooked and even denigrated authors, Negotiating Languages provides insight into the forces that turned intimate speech into a potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.
Author : Martin Zammit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9047400518
In this analytical work, the lexical relationships between Arabic, based on the Qur'ānic register, and Akkadian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Phoenician Epigraphic, South Arabian and Ge‘ez are established. Its aim is to assess the various degrees of cultural proximity between these Semitic languages.
Author : Mary Snell-Hornby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027286213
Translation Studies presents an integrated concept based on the theory and practice of translation. The author adapts linguistic approaches and methods in such a way that they may be usefully employed in the theory, practice, and analysis of literary translation. The author develops a more cultural approach through text analysis and cross-cultural communication studies. The book is a contribution to the development of translation studies as a discipline in its own right.
Author : Karin C. Ryding
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780878406630
The first book in English on the founder of Arabic linguistic theory, this interdisciplinary collection explores the contributions to Arabic intellectual history of al-Khalil ibn Ahmad, (d. A.H. 175/A.D. 791). Conceived as a tribute to al-Khalil's influence on Arabic language sciences, this book provides a new and broader perspective on al-Khalil's talents, character, and fields of interest.
Author : Elias G. Saba
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 3110605791
"Harmonizing Similarities" is a study of the legal distinctions (al-furūq al-fiqhiyya) literature and its role in the development of the Islamic legal heritage. This book reconsiders how the public performance of Islamic law helped shape legal literature. It identifies the origins of this tradition in contemporaneous lexicographic and medical literature, both of which demonstrated the productive potential of drawing distinctions. Elias G. Saba demonstrates the implications of the legal furūq and how changes to this genre reflect shifts in the social consumption of Islamic legal knowledge. The interest in legal distinctions grew out of the performance of knowledge in formalized legal disputations. From here, legal distinctions incorporated elements of play through its interactions with the genre of legal riddles. As play, books of legal distinctions were supplements to performance in literary salons, study circles, and court performances; these books also served as mimetic objects, allowing the reader to participate in a session virtually. Saba underscores how social and intellectual practices helped shape the literary development of Islamic law and that literary elaboration became a main driver of dynamism in Islamic law. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.
Author : Milton Eng
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567316696
"The present study is a significant revision and updating of my 1998 dissertation at Drew University"--Acknowlegements.
Author : Alastair Hamilton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9004498206
Arabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.
Author : Avner Giladi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004491546
This volume examines early Islamic theories and practices of breastfeeding, their long-term social implications and their impact on the lives of women and children. In the light of the impediments to marriage created, according to Islamic law, by nonmaternal breastfeeding, the author also explores the role they have played in wider circles of social life: how they influenced the way relations between different families were established, reduced the occurence of endogamous marriages, and created semiprivate spaces. This is the first comprehensive research, within western Islamology, devoted to the subject, serving as it were as a link between Women's History and History of Childhood. It is based on a wide range of religious sources - from Qur'an, Qur'an exegesis, through hadith to legal writings - as well as on medieval Arabic medical compilations.
