{"product_id":"arabic-and-its-alternatives-religious-minorities-and-their-languages-in-the-emerging-nation-states-of-the-middle-east-1920-1950-9789004382695","title":"Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious Minorities and their Languages in the Emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War. This volume takes its starting point in the non-Arabic and non-Muslim communities, tracing their linguistic and literary practices as part of a number of interlinked processes, including that of religious modernization, of new types of communal identity politics and of socio-political engagement with the emerging nation states and their accompanying nationalisms. These twentieth-century developments are firmly rooted in literary and linguistic practices of the Ottoman period, but take new turns under influence of colonization and decolonization, showing the versatility and resilience as much as the vulnerability of these linguistic and religious minorities in the region.     Contributors are Tijmen C. Baarda, Leyla Dakhli, Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah, Liora R. Halperin, Robert Isaf, Michiel Leezenberg, Merav Mack, Heleen Murre-van den Berg, Konstantinos Papastathis, Franck Salameh, Cyrus Schayegh, Emmanuel Szurek, Peter Wien.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Heleen Murre-van den Berg    Note on Transcription  Notes on Contributors    1 Arabic and its Alternatives: Language and Religion in the Ottoman Empire and its Successor States   Heleen Murre-van den Berg    2 Vernacularization as Governmentalization: the Development of Kurdish in Mandate Iraq   Michiel Leezenberg    3 “Yan, Of, Ef, Viç, İç, İs, Dis, Pulos …”: the Surname Reform, the “Non-Muslims,” and the Politics of Uncertainty in Post-genocidal Turkey   Emmanuel Szurek    4 “Young Phoenicians” and the Quest for a Lebanese Language: between Lebanonism, Phoenicianism, and Arabism   Franck Salameh    5 “Those Who Pronounce the Ḍād”: Language and Ethnicity in the Nationalist Poetry of Fuʾad al-Khatib (1880–1957)   Peter Wien    6 Arabic and the Syriac Christians in Iraq: Three Levels of Loyalty to the Arabist Project (1920–1950)   Tijmen C. Baarda    7 Awakening, or Watchfulness: Naum Faiq and Syriac Language Poetry at the Fall of the Ottoman Empire   Robert Isaf    8 Global Jewish Philanthropy and Linguistic Pragmatism in Baghdad   Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah    9 Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of Arabic in Mandate Palestine   Liora R. Halperin    10 United by Faith, Divided by Language: the Orthodox in Jerusalem   Merav Mack    11 Arabic vs. Greek: the Linguistic Aspect of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church Controversy in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate   Konstantinos Papastathis    12 Between Local Power and Global Politics: Playing with Languages in the Franciscan Printing Press of Jerusalem   Leyla Dakhli    13 Epilogue   Cyrus Schayegh    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210760708439,"sku":"9789004382695","price":104.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arabic-and-its-alternatives-religious-minorities-and-their-languages-in-the-emerging-nation-states-of-the-middle-east-1920-1950-9789004382695","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}