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This volume provides with an exhaustive study of Arabic morpho-phonology based on the 13th century complete work written by Aḥmad b. ‘alī Mas‘ūd; the Marāḥ al-arwāḥ, which is critically edited and provided with an introduction, an English translation and an extensive commentary.
€96.00$124.00
Through an examination of a variety of literary genres composed in Arabic and Hebrew, this book examines the literary definition of al-Andalus by taking into account the role of memory, language, and literary convention in analyses of texts composed following cultural and political challenges to ...
€153.00$198.00
This book gives a detailed analysis of the co-occurrence restrictions and co-occurrence preferences which act on the consonants of the triliteral and quadriliteral verbal roots in Arabic and Hebrew. It contains a wealth of tabulated material which can be of great use to other investigators. The ...
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This book traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called “Humayni poetry.” The book addresses the connections between the Humayni poetry of Yemen and the sacred poetry of Jews from Yemen, a hitherto-neglected chapter in the history of Arabic and Jewish literatures.
€136.00$176.00
Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry.
€128.00$166.00
A large section from a hitherto unknown Hebrew grammatical text, written in the tenth century by the Karaite scholar ’Abū Ya‘qūb Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ of Jerusalem, is analysed in detail. The volume includes an annotated English translation.
€118.00$153.00
Situating Nima's life firmly within the context of 20th century Iranian history this book contributes to an emerging trend in literary scholarship on Persian literature that views Persian poetry as a living and constantly evolving tradition rather than an icon of some fading glory.
€106.00$137.00
This publication and discussion of the fragments of the Greek novel of Mētiokhos and Parthenopē and the Persian epic poem based on it, ʿUnṣurī’s Vāmiq and ʿAdhrā, adds a new work to the corpus of ancient novels and sheds new light on Persian epic poetry.