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This work consists of stories both from Muslim sacred history and collections of tales from a variety of sources – even from The Thousand and One Nights -- used for religious edification or purely for pleasure reading in the Islamic world.
€138.00$179.00
This collection of Charles Ferguson's papers on Arabic linguistics includes a biographical sketch (with excerpts from interviews with him) documenting the career and contributions of a pioneer in American linguistics. Four sections include: Diachronica, Phonology, Register and Genre, and General.
€342.00$443.00
This publication provides definitions, summaries and extensive citations of the terminology in the philological commentary on the Qur’ān, by al-Farrā’ (d. 207/822). This Lexicon provides the first comprehensive study of the Kūfan terminology based on an extant Kūfan source.
€225.00$291.00
This translation and study extend our knowlege of the Arabic genre of the maqāma by some years. If translations of the genre are lacking, literary critical studies of it are even rarer. Therefore, the work will be of interest to scholars of Arabic, Spanish, and other literatures, to ...
€203.00$263.00
An analyses of the evolution of Arabic verse and its relation with Semitic verse, providing the largest so far statistical data of the metrical repertory of Classical Arabic poetry, and offering a new interpretation of the original Arabic metrical theory.
€186.00$241.00
A description of the processes by which, over centuries of large-scale contact, Romance (Old Sicilian and Italian) and English verbs have been integrated to varying degrees into the Arabic structure of Maltese. Loan verbs are analysed and classified into categories ranging from fully naturalised ...
€204.00$264.00
One can no longer cite the Kitāb of Sībawayhi without referring to this study of its manuscript tradition, based on 43 manuscripts. The analysis of its transmission by Arab scholars leads to the discovery of an exceptional manuscript, kept in Milan, which makes a new reading of the Kitāb possible.
€403.00$522.00
This two-volume publication provides a unique introduction to the qadisa, a major poetic genre current in Islamic literatures from medieval times to the present; it comprises a volume of papers and an accompanying anthology of 50 poems in 14 languages with English translation.
€103.00$133.00
This study of the earliest Qur’ānic commentaries analyzes the origin of linguistic thinking in Islam and its technical terminology.