Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East : Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff /
Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East : Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff /
ed. by A. H. Mathias Zahniser, Asma Afsaruddin.
- 1 online resource (464 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Publications by Georg Krotkoff -- Abbreviations -- Georg Krotkoff as Scholar and Teacher -- Part 1 Humanism, Culture, and Literature -- Inquiry into the Origins of Humanism -- Humanism and the Language Sciences in Medieval Islam -- Cosmic Numbers: The Symbolic Design of Ni z a m ÿ ’s Haft Paykar -- Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse -- From Revolt to Resignation: The Life of Shaykh Mḥsin Sharāra -- Sūra as Guidance and Exhortation: The Composition of Sūrat al-Nisā -- The Hijāb: How a Curtain Became an Institution and a Cultural Symbol -- The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel and Short Story in Arabic -- An Arabic Poem in an Israeli Controversy: Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s “Passing Words” -- Bi-l'Arabī al-faṣīḥ: An Egyptian Play Looks at Contemporary Arab Society -- Part 2 Arabic -- Learning Arabic: A Lifetime Commitment -- The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism -- Al-Khalīl’s Legacy -- The Etymology of Muqarnas : Some Observations -- Egyptian Arabic and Dialect Contact in Historical Perspective -- On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic -- Ein arabischer Text aus Constantine (Algerien) -- Part 3 Aramaic -- Zur griechischen Neben ü berlieferung im Syrischen -- Syriac Loanwords in Classical Armenian -- The Modern Chaldean Pronunciation of Classical Syriac -- Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 -- Zum neuaram ä ischen Dialekt von Hassane (Provinz ´ı rnak) -- A Preliminary List of Aramaic Loanwords in Kurdish -- The Story of Balaam and His She-Ass in Four Neo-Aramaic Dialects: A Comparative Study of the Translations -- A Comparative Study of Pet Names in English and Assyrian -- The Trickle Down Approach -- Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen -- Akkadian lišan-u-m , Arabic lišan-u-n : Which Is the Older Form? -- Part 5 Ancient Egyptian, Ottoman Turkish, and Other Linguistic Matters -- You Gotta Have Heart -- The Protean Arabic Abjad -- A Matter of Inconsistency: Variation of Arabic Loanwords in English -- The Language and Prose Style of Bostān’s Süleymānnāme -- Language and Script in Ancient Egypt -- Contributors -- Index of Authors
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781575065083
10.1515/9781575065083 doi
Arabic philology.
Aramaic language--Aramäisch--Arabisch.
Aramaic language.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
PJ6024.K78 / H48 1997
492.7
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Publications by Georg Krotkoff -- Abbreviations -- Georg Krotkoff as Scholar and Teacher -- Part 1 Humanism, Culture, and Literature -- Inquiry into the Origins of Humanism -- Humanism and the Language Sciences in Medieval Islam -- Cosmic Numbers: The Symbolic Design of Ni z a m ÿ ’s Haft Paykar -- Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse -- From Revolt to Resignation: The Life of Shaykh Mḥsin Sharāra -- Sūra as Guidance and Exhortation: The Composition of Sūrat al-Nisā -- The Hijāb: How a Curtain Became an Institution and a Cultural Symbol -- The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel and Short Story in Arabic -- An Arabic Poem in an Israeli Controversy: Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s “Passing Words” -- Bi-l'Arabī al-faṣīḥ: An Egyptian Play Looks at Contemporary Arab Society -- Part 2 Arabic -- Learning Arabic: A Lifetime Commitment -- The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism -- Al-Khalīl’s Legacy -- The Etymology of Muqarnas : Some Observations -- Egyptian Arabic and Dialect Contact in Historical Perspective -- On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic -- Ein arabischer Text aus Constantine (Algerien) -- Part 3 Aramaic -- Zur griechischen Neben ü berlieferung im Syrischen -- Syriac Loanwords in Classical Armenian -- The Modern Chaldean Pronunciation of Classical Syriac -- Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 -- Zum neuaram ä ischen Dialekt von Hassane (Provinz ´ı rnak) -- A Preliminary List of Aramaic Loanwords in Kurdish -- The Story of Balaam and His She-Ass in Four Neo-Aramaic Dialects: A Comparative Study of the Translations -- A Comparative Study of Pet Names in English and Assyrian -- The Trickle Down Approach -- Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen -- Akkadian lišan-u-m , Arabic lišan-u-n : Which Is the Older Form? -- Part 5 Ancient Egyptian, Ottoman Turkish, and Other Linguistic Matters -- You Gotta Have Heart -- The Protean Arabic Abjad -- A Matter of Inconsistency: Variation of Arabic Loanwords in English -- The Language and Prose Style of Bostān’s Süleymānnāme -- Language and Script in Ancient Egypt -- Contributors -- Index of Authors
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781575065083
10.1515/9781575065083 doi
Arabic philology.
Aramaic language--Aramäisch--Arabisch.
Aramaic language.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
PJ6024.K78 / H48 1997
492.7