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Book SynopsisEssays by 33 colleagues, friends, and students of the Johns Hopkins University Arabist and linguist. Topics include (1) humanism, culture, and literature; (2) Arabic; (3) Aramaic; and (4) Afroasiatic.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Publications
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Introduction: Georg Krotkoff as Scholar and Teacher
PART 1: Humanism, Culture, and Literature
George Makdisi - Philadelphia - Inquiry into the Origins of Humanism
Michael G. Carter - New York - Humanism and the Language Sciences in Medieval Islam
Julie Scott Meisami - Oxford - Cosmic Numbers: The Symbolic Design of Nizami’s Haft Paykar
Fedwa Malti-Douglas - Bloomington, Indiana - Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse
Werner Ende - Freiburg, Germany - From Revolt to Resignation: The Life of Shaykh Muhsin Sharara
A. H. Mathias Zahniser - Wilmore, Kentucky - Sura as Guidance and Exhortation: The Composition of Surat al-Nisa
Barbara Freyer Stowasser - Washington, D.C. - The Hijab: How a Curtain Became an Institution and a Cultural Symbol
Roger Allen - Philadelphia - The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel and Short Story in Arabic
Issa J. Boullata - Montreal - An Arabic Poem in an Israeli Controversy: Mahmud Darwish’s ‘Passing Words’
Asma Afsaruddin - South Bend, Indiana - Bi-l Arabi al-fasih: An Egyptian Play Looks at Contemporary Arab Society
PART 2: Arabic
Carolyn Killean - Chicago
Learning Arabic: A Lifetime Commitment
Karin C. Ryding - Washington, D.C. - The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism
Karl Stowasser - College Park, Maryland - Al-Khalil’s Legacy
Wolfhart Heinrichs - Cambridge, Massachusetts - The Etymology of Muqarnas: Some Observations
Manfred Woidich - Amsterdam - Egyptian Arabic and Dialect Contact in Historical Perspective
Benjamin Hary - Atlanta - On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic
Hans-Rudolph Singer - Germersheim - Ein arabischer Text aus Constantine (Algerien)
PART 3: Aramaic
Anton Schall - Heidelberg - Zur griechischen Nebenuberlieferung im Syrischen
John A. C. Greppin - Cleveland - Syriac Loanwords in Classical Armenian
Robert D. Hoberman - Stonybrook, New York - The Modern Chaldean Pronunciation of Classical Syriac
Gary A. Rendsburg - Ithaca, New York - Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19
Otto Jastrow - Heidelberg - Zum neuaramaischen Dialekt von Hassane
Michael L. Chyet - Berkeley - A Preliminary List of Aramaic Loanwords in Kurdish
Yona Sabar - Los Angeles - The Story of Balaam and His She-Ass in Four Neo-Aramaic Dialects: A Comparative Study of the Translations
Edward Y. Odisho - Chicago - A Comparative Study of Pet Names in English and Assyrian
PART 4: Afroasiatic
Carleton T. Hodge - Bloomington, Indiana - The Trickle-Down Approach
Herrmann Jungraithmayr - Frankfurt am Main - Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen
Werner Vycichl - Geneva - Akkadian lisan-u-m, Arabic lisan-u-n: Which Is the Older Form?
PART 5: Ancient Egyptian, Ottoman Turkish, and Other Linguistic Matters
Yoel L. Arbeitman - Princeton -You Gotta Have Heart
Peter T. Daniels - Chicago - The Protean Arabic Abjad
Alan S. Kaye - Fullerton, California - A Matter of Inconsistency: Variations of Arabic Loanwords in English
Claudia Romer - Vienna - The Language and Prose Syle of Bostan’s Suleymanname
Nas Goedicke - Baltimore - Language and Script in Ancient Egypt
Contributors
Index of Authors
