Arabic in Context
Celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University
Published on 21. June 2017
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-90-04-34303-0 (ISBN)
Description
The writing of Arabic's linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The present volume seeks to catalyse a dialogue between scholars in various fields who are interested in Arabic's past and to illustrate how much there is to be gained by looking beyond the traditional sources and methods. It contains 15 innovative studies ranging from pre-Islamic epigraphy to the modern spoken dialect, and from comparative Semitics to Middle Arabic. The combination of these perspectives hopes to stand as an important methodological intervention, encouraging a shift in the way Arabic's linguistic history is written.
Reviews / Votes
"[...]this is an excellent collection of articles, which contains a wealth of information and shows a high level of scholarship. The book does exactlywhat it promises on the cover: to look at Arabic from an interdisciplinary point of view, combining methodology from the fields of historical linguistics, epigraphy, dialectology, and history. This book is a must-read for everyone interested in the history of the Arabic language." ~ Liesbeth Zacks, University of Amsterdam, in BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS LXXV N degrees 3-4, mei-augustus 2018, pp. 433-438
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Series
Edition
xx, 501 pp., index
Language
Other
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
4 s/w Tabellen
4 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
873 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-34303-0 (9789004343030)
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Person
Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012) Harvard University, is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University. He has published on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, the history of Arabic, and on the epigraphy of Ancient North Arabia, including An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (Brill, 2015).
Contributors are: Ahmad Al-Jallad, Martin F. J. Baasten, Johnny Cheung, Guillaume Dye, Lutz Edzard, Jordi Ferrer i Serra, Francesco Grande, John Huehnergard, Geoffrey Khan, Manfred Kropp, Alexander Magidow, Daniele Mascitelli, Laila Nehme, Na'ama Pat-El, and Andrzej Zaborski.
Contributors are: Ahmad Al-Jallad, Martin F. J. Baasten, Johnny Cheung, Guillaume Dye, Lutz Edzard, Jordi Ferrer i Serra, Francesco Grande, John Huehnergard, Geoffrey Khan, Manfred Kropp, Alexander Magidow, Daniele Mascitelli, Laila Nehme, Na'ama Pat-El, and Andrzej Zaborski.