In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxiv, 572 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Bilal Orfali, Ph.D. (2009), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of several articles and books on classical Arabic literature and Islamic mysticism.

Readership

All those interested in intellectual and social history, Arabic grammar, linguistics, philology, and literature.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Bibliography Ramzi Baalbaki

History of Arabic Grammar
1. Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of Arabic
Yasir Suleiman
2. The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Diffferent?
Michael G. Carter
3. Khabar / Inshāʾ, une fois encore
Pierre Larcher
4. From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other Identifĳiers
Nadia Anghelescu
5. La coordination à un constituant du noyau en arabe
Hassan Hamzé
6. Mustaqīm, muḥāl, ḥasan, qabīḥ: Les critères de recevabilité dans le Kitāb de Sībawayhi
Georgine Ayoub
7. An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganief’s Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958)
Kees Versteegh

Profiles of Grammarians
8. Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies
Monique Bernards
9. Al-Zajjāj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative Context
Wadād al-Qāḍī
10. Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some Poems
Geert Jan van Gelder

Linguistics
11. Linguistic Observations on the Theonym Allāh
Aziz Al-Azmeh
12. Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li-
Karin Christina Ryding
13. Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of Sībawayhi’s Dispute with the Naḥwiyyūn over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object Pronouns
David Wilmsen

Style, Lexicography, and Phonosymbolism
14. Homonymie, polysémie et critères de distinction
Ibrahim Ben Mrad
15. Sulamī’s Treatise on the Science of the Letters (ʿilm al-ḥurūf)
Gerhard Böwering
16. Style formulaire et parallélisme dans le Coran
Georges Bohas
17. Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular Epics
Peter Heath

Arabic Contextualized
18. Ghazal and Grammar: al-Bāʿūnī’s Taḍmīn Alfĳiyyat Ibn Mālik fī l-Ghazal
Bilal Orfali
19. The Qurʾān as a Late Antique Text
Angelika Neuwirth
20. A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic
Everhard Ditters

Index of Arabic Terms
Index of Proper Nouns
Notes on the Contributors

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The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics

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This volume offers in-depth introductions into major aspects of the Foundations of Arabic Linguistics, early Syriac and medieval Hebrew linguistic traditions. It presents Sībawayhi in the context of his grammatical legacy and reviews his work in the light of modern theories.

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Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic

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Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators

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