TY - BOOK AU - Afsaruddin,Asma AU - Allen,Roger AU - Arbeitman,Yoël L. AU - Boullata,Issa J. AU - Carter,Michael G. AU - Chyet,Michael L. AU - Daniels,Peter T. AU - Ende,Werner AU - Goedicke,Hans AU - Greppin,John A.C. AU - Hary,Benjamin AU - Heinrichs,Wolfhart AU - Hoberman,Robert D. AU - Hodge,Carleton T. AU - Jastrow,Otto AU - Jungraithmayr,Herrmann AU - Kaye,Alan S. AU - Killean,Carolyn AU - Makdisi,George AU - Malti-Douglas,Fedwa AU - Meisami,Julie Scott AU - Odisho,Edward Y. AU - Rendsburg,Gary A. AU - Ryding,Karin C. AU - Römer,Claudia AU - Sabar,Yona AU - Schall,Anton AU - Singer,Hans-Rudolf AU - Stowasser,Barbara Freyer AU - Stowasser,Karl AU - Vycichl,Werner AU - Woidich,Manfred AU - Zahniser,A.H.Mathias TI - Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff SN - 9781575065083 AV - PJ6024.K78 H48 1997 U1 - 492.7 PY - 2022///] CY - University Park, PA : PB - Penn State University Press, KW - Arabic philology KW - Aramaic language KW - Aramäisch KW - Arabisch KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065083?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781575065083 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781575065083/original ER -