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Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East :

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1575060205 (cloth : alk. paper)

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9781575060200 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Title Proper

Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Asma Afsaruddin and A.H. Mathias Zahniser.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Winona Lake, Ind. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Eisenbrauns,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1997.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxiii, 440 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Inquiry into the origins of humanism / George Makdisi -- Humanism and the language sciences in medieval Islam / Michael G. Carter -- Cosmic numbers : the symbolic design of Niẓāmī's Haft Paykar / Julie Scott Meisami -- Playing with the sacred : religious intertext in adab discourse / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- From revolt to resignation : the life of Shaykh Muḥsin Sharāra / Werner Ende -- Sūra as guidance and exhortation : the composition of Sūrat al-Nisāʼ / A.H. Mathias Zahniser -- The ḥijāb : how a curtain became an institution and a cultural symbol / Barbara Freyer Stowasser -- The development of fictional genres : the novel and short story in Arabic / Roger Allen -- An Arabic poem in an Israeli controversy : Maḥmūd Darwīsh's "Passing Words" / Issa J. Boullata -- Bi-lʻArabī al-faṣīḥ : an Egyptian play looks at contemporary Arab society / Asma Afsaruddin -- Learning Arabic : a lifetime commitment / Carolyn Killean -- The alchemy of sound : medeival Arabic phonosymbolisms / Karin C. Ryding -- Al-Khalīl's legacy / Karl Stowasser -- The etymology of muqarnas : some observations / Wolfhart Heinrichs -- Egyptian Arabic and dialect contact in historical perspective / Manfred Woidich -- On later and modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic / Benjamin Hary -- Ein arabischer Text aus Constatine (Algerien) / Hans-Rudoph Singer -- Zur griechischen Nebenüberlieferung im Syrischen / Anton Schall -- Syriac loanwords in classical Armenian / John A.C. Greppin -- The modern Chaldean pronunciation of classical Syriac / Robert D. Hoberman -- Double polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 / Gary A. Rendsburg -- Zum neuaramäischen Dialekt von Hassane / Otto Jastrow -- A preliminary list of Aramaic loanwords in Kurdish / Michael L. Chyet -- The story of Balaam and his she-ass in four neo-Aramaic dialects : a comparative study of the translations / Yona Sabar -- A comparative study of pet names in English and Assyrian / Edward Y. Odisho -- The trickle-down approach / Carleton T. Hodge -- Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen / Hermann Jungraithmayr -- Akkadian lišān-u-n : which is the older form? / Werner Vycichl -- You gotta have heart / Yoël L. Arbeitman -- The protean Arabic abjad /rPeter T. Daniels -- A matter of inconsistency : variations of Arabic loanwords in English / Alan S. Kaye -- The language and prose sytle of Bostān's Süleymānnāme / Claudia Römer -- Language and script in Ancient Egypt / Hans Goedicke.

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Title

Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East.

Cover Title

Humanism, culture & language in the Near East

Arabic philology.

Aramaic language.

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Book number

Afsaruddin, Asma,1958-

Krotkoff, Georg.

Zahniser, A. H. Mathias,1938-

Date of Transaction

20140215151105.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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