Author: Bengt Knutsson
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Arabic language
Languages : ar
Pages : 396

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Author: Knutsson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004661220
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Ronny Vollandt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004289933
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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This work offers a seminal research into Arabic translations of the Pentateuch. It is no exaggeration to speak of this field as a terra incognita. Biblical versions in Arabic were produced over many centuries, on the basis of a wide range of source languages (Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, or Coptic), and in varying contexts. The textual evidence for this study is exclusively based on a corpus of about 150 manuscripts, containing the Pentateuch in Arabic or parts thereof.

Author: Mohamed Meouak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110773856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Concepts such as influence, imitation, emulation, transmission or plagiarism are transcendental to cultural history and the subject of universal debate. They are not mere labels imposed by modern historiography on ancient texts, nor are they the result of a later interpretation of ways of transmitting and teaching, but are concepts defined and discussed internally, within all cultures, since time immemorial, which have yielded very diverse results. In the case of culture, or better Arab-Islamic cultures, we could analyze and discuss endlessly numerous terms that refer to concepts related to the multiple ways of perceiving the Other, receiving his knowledge and producing new knowledge. The purpose of this book evolves around these concepts, and it aims to become part of a very long tradition of studies on this subject that is essential to the understanding of the processes of reception and creation. The authors analyze them in depth through the use of examples that are based on the well-known idea that societies in different regions did not remain isolated and indifferent to the literary, religious or scientific creations that were developed in other territories and moreover that the flow of ideas did not always occur in only one direction. Contacts, both voluntary and involuntary, are never incidental or marginal, but are rather the true engine of the evolution of knowledge and creation. It can also be stated that it has been the awareness of the existence of multidimensional cultural relations which has allowed modern historiography on Arab cultures to evolve and be enriched in recent decades.

Author: Miriam Lindgren Hjälm
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004311157
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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In Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel, Miriam L. Hjälm provides an insight into the Arabic transmission of the biblical Book of Daniel. This book offers an inventory and a classification of extant manuscripts as well as a detailed account of the translation techniques employed in the early manuscripts. The use of the texts is discussed and the various versions are compared with liturgical Bible material. Miriam L. Hjälm shows the importance of Arabic as a tool for understanding the development of the religious heritage of Christian communities under Muslim rule. Arabic became an indispensable part of the everyday life of many Near Eastern Christians and was increasingly used next to the established liturgical languages, which remained the standard measure of the biblical text.

Author: Heikki Palva
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062244
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This study argues that the Middle East is no drab veiled monolith; it is a vibrant chaotic region, often alarming to the newcomer, ever changing but also unchanging. Its paradoxes are reflected in contributions to this volume.

Author: Clive Holes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191005061
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. It specifically investigates the evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, in contrast to the many existing studies that focus on written Classical or Modern Standard Arabic. The volume begins with a discursive introduction that deals with important issues in the general scholarly context, including the indigenous myth and probable reality of the history of Arabic; Arabic dialect geography and typology; types of internally and externally motivated linguistic change; social indexicalisation; and pidginization and creolization in Arabic-speaking communities. Most chapters then focus on developments in a specific region - Mauritania, the Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant, the Northern Fertile Crescent, the Gulf, and South Arabia - with one exploring Judaeo-Arabic, a group of varieties historically spread over a wider area. The remaining two chapters in the volume examine individual linguistic features of particular historical interest and controversy, specifically the origin and evolution of the b- verbal prefix, and the adnominal linker -an/-in. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the linguistic and social history of Arabic as well as to comparative linguists interested in topics such as linguistic typology and language change.

Author: Ahmad b.'Ali b. Mas'ud
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004661891
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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This is a study in Arabic morphology of the strong verb, infinitive noun and of their nine subordinates: the perfect, the imperfect, the imperative, the prohibition, the active participle, the passive participle and the nouns of time, place and instrument. The work consists of four main parts, the Arabic edition, the translation, the commentary and the introduction. Copious references are given to well-known Arabic and European grammarians.

Author: Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Masʻūd
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004093119
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Hossein Nazari
Publisher: ICAS Press
ISBN: 1907905413
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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The Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies is organised by the Research and Publications Department of The Islamic College, London. The conference aims to provide a broad platform for scholars working in the field of Shi‘i Studies to present their latest research and to explore diverse opinions on Shi‘i thought, practice, and heritage. This book comprises a selection of papers from the second conference held on 7–8 May 2016.