Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East

Preface

Acknowledgments

Publications

Abbreviations

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