Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff

Published by Penn State University Press 1997

Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East

Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff

Edited by: Asma Afsaruddin and A. H. Mathias Zahniser

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065083

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Publications by Georg Krotkoff Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xxii
Georg Krotkoff as Scholar and Teacher Asma Afsaruddin and A. H. Mathias Zahniser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Humanism, Culture, and Literature
Inquiry into the Origins of Humanism George Makdisi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Humanism and the Language Sciences in Medieval Islam Michael G. Carter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Cosmic Numbers: The Symbolic Design of Ni z a m ÿ ’s Haft Paykar Julie Scott Meisami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse Fedwa Malti-Douglas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
From Revolt to Resignation: The Life of Shaykh Mḥsin Sharāra Werner Ende Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Sūra as Guidance and Exhortation: The Composition of Sūrat al-Nisā Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Hijāb: How a Curtain Became an Institution and a Cultural Symbol Barbara Freyer Stowasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel and Short Story in Arabic Roger Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
An Arabic Poem in an Israeli Controversy: Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s “Passing Words” Issa J. Boullata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Bi-l'Arabī al-faṣīḥ: An Egyptian Play Looks at Contemporary Arab Society Asma Afsaruddin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Part 2 Arabic
Learning Arabic: A Lifetime Commitment Carolyn Killean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism Karin C. Ryding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Al-Khalīl’s Legacy Karl Stowasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Etymology of Muqarnas : Some Observations Wolfhart Heinrichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Egyptian Arabic and Dialect Contact in Historical Perspective Manfred Woidich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Benjamin Hary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Ein arabischer Text aus Constantine (Algerien) Hans-Rudolf Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Part 3 Aramaic
Zur griechischen Neben ü berlieferung im Syrischen Anton Schall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Syriac Loanwords in Classical Armenian John A. C. Greppin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
The Modern Chaldean Pronunciation of Classical Syriac Robert D. Hoberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 Gary A. Rendsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Zum neuaram ä ischen Dialekt von Hassane (Provinz ´ı rnak) Otto Jastrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
A Preliminary List of Aramaic Loanwords in Kurdish Michael L. Chyet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
The Story of Balaam and His She-Ass in Four Neo-Aramaic Dialects: A Comparative Study of the Translations Yona Sabar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
A Comparative Study of Pet Names in English and Assyrian Edward Y. Odisho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
The Trickle Down Approach Carleton T. Hodge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen Herrmann Jungraithmayr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Akkadian lišan-u-m , Arabic lišan-u-n : Which Is the Older Form? Werner Vycichl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Part 5 Ancient Egyptian, Ottoman Turkish, and Other Linguistic Matters
You Gotta Have Heart Yoël L. Arbeitman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
The Protean Arabic Abjad Peter T. Daniels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
A Matter of Inconsistency: Variation of Arabic Loanwords in English Alan S. Kaye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
The Language and Prose Style of Bostān’s Süleymānnāme Claudia Römer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
Language and Script in Ancient Egypt Hans Goedicke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: April 21, 2022
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