A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic.

• Superior document: Semitic Languages and Cultures Series ; v.9
• Author: Wagner, Esther-Miriam.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Semitic Languages and Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (490 pages)

This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way.

Table of Contents

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. HANDBOOK -- Leezenberg - 1. VERNACULARISATION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: IS ARABIC THE EXCEPTION THAT PROVES THE RULE? -- Kızılkaya - 2. FROM MEANS TO GOAL: AUXILIARY DISCIPLINES IN THE OTTOMAN MADRASA CURRICULUM -- Burak - 3. ON THE ORDER OF THE SCIENCES FOR HE WHO WANTS TO LEARN THEM -- Burak - 4. RUMI AUTHORS, THE ARABIC HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TRADITION, AND THE OTTOMAN DAWLA/DEVLET -- Bahl - 5. ARABIC GRAMMAR BOOKS IN OTTOMAN ISTANBUL: THE SOUTH ASIAN CONNECTION1 -- Khayyat - 6. BASTARDS AND ARABS -- II. READER -- Arad and Wagner - 1. BODL. MS. HEB. C. 72/18: A LETTER BY ISAAC BAYT ʿAṬṬĀN TO MOSES B. JUDAH (1480S) -- Hary - 2. THE PURIM SCROLL OF THE CAIRENE JEWISH COMMUNITY -- Arad - 3. APPOINTMENT DEED OF A CANTOR IN THE KARAITE COMMUNITY, CAIRO (1575) -- Ilan - 4. AHARON GARISH, METSAḤ AHARON -- Davies - 5. KITĀB HAZZ AL-QUḤŪF (1600S)1 -- Liebrenz and Richardson - 6. A WEAVER'S NOTEBOOK FROM ALEPPO (10TH/16TH CENTURY) -- Erdman - 7. SELECTIONS FROM ARABIC GARSHŪNĪ MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY -- Zack - 8. EXCERPT FROM YŪSUF AL-MAĠRIBĪ'S DAFʿ AL-IṢR ʿAN KALĀM AHL MIṢR (1606) -- Lentin - 9. LEBANON: CHRONICLE OF AL-ṢAFADĪ (EARLY 17TH CENTURY [?]) -- Diem - 10. A JEW'S TESTIMONY REGARDING A STATEMENT MADE IN HIS PRESENCE BY A MUSLIM, TESTIFIED ON MONDAY 20TH KISLEV 5418 (1657)1 -- Diem - 11. A JEW'S TESTIMONY REGARDING A STATEMENT MADE IN HIS PRESENCE BY A MUSLIM (1681)1 -- Shafran - 12. A BASRA PASSOVER HAGGADAH WITH JUDAEO-ARABIC TRANSLATION (CA. 1700) -- Ghraowi - 13. QAHWA 'COFFEE' (16TH-17TH CENTURIES) -- Lentin - 14. EGYPT: DAMURDĀŠĪ'S CHRONICLE OF EGYPT (FIRST HALF OF 18TH CENTURY) -- Avetisyan - 15. MATENADARAN COLLECTION MS NO.1751: A MEDICAL WORK (1726) -- Wagner and Ahmed - 16. A CLERICAL LETTER BY RAFAEL AL-ṬŪḴĪ FROM THE PRIZE PAPERS COLLECTIONS (1758)1.

Wagner and Ahmed - 17. A CHRISTIAN MERCANTILE LETTER FROM THE PRIZE PAPERS COLLECTIONS (1759)1 -- Krimsti - 18. ḤANNĀ AL-ṬABĪB, RIḤLAT AL-SHAMMĀS ḤANNĀ AL-ṬABĪB ILĀ BALDAT ISTANBŪL (1764/65) -- Lentin - 19. SYRIA 1: CHRONICLE OF IBN AL-ṢIDDĪQ (1768) -- Ech-Charfi - 20. A LETTER TRANSMITTED BY AMBASSADOR HAJJ MAHDĪ BARGASH FROM SULTAN MUḤAMMAD BIN ʿABDALLAH TO SULTAN ABDUL ḤAMĪD (1789 CE) -- Liebrenz - 21. ARAB MERCHANT LETTERS FROM THE GOTHA COLLECTION OF ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS -- Dudley - 22. A JUDAEO-ARABIC LETTER FROM THE PRIZE PAPERS COLLECTION, HCA 32/1208/126.2 (1796) -- Ørum - 23. THE CAIRO-RAMLA MANUSCRIPTS, OR THE RAMLE KAR, 13 (1800S) -- Connolly - 24. A 19TH-CENTURY JUDAEO-ARABIC FOLK NARRATIVE1 -- Lentin - 25. LIBYA 1: ḤASAN AL-FAQĪH ḤASAN'S CHRONICLE AL-YAWMIYYĀT AL-LĪBIYYA (EARLY 19TH CENTURY) -- Lentin - 26. LIBYA 2: LETTER FROM ĠŪMA AL-MAḤMŪDĪ (1795-1858) TO ʿAZMĪ BĒK, DAFTARDĀR OF THE ʼIYĀLA (PROVINCE) OF TRIPOLI (UNDATED) -- Khan and Wagner - 27. T-S NS 99.38 (1809) -- Wagner and Ahmed - 28. RYLANDS GENIZAH COLLECTION A 803 (1825) -- Lentin - 29. SYRIA 2: CHRONICLE OF MUḤAMMAD SAʿĪD AL-ʼUSṬUWĀNĪ (1840-1861) -- Lentin - 30. ARABIA: A LETTER FROM ABDALLAH ḤIṢĀNĪ TO ʿABDALLAH BĀŠĀ (1855) -- Zack - 31. EXCERPTS FROM YAʿQŪB ṢANŪʿ'S ABŪ NAḌḌĀRA ZARʼA AND ʿABD ALLĀH AL-NADĪM'S AL-USTĀḎ -- Kiraz - 32. A DISGRUNTLED BISHOP: A GARSHŪNĪ LETTER FROM BISHOP DINḤĀ OF MIDYAT TO PATRIARCH PETER III -- Bellem and Smith - 33. AḤMAD B. MUḤAMMAD AL-JARĀDĪ: SĪRAT AL-ḴAWĀJA AL-ʼAKRAM AL-MARḤŪM HARMĀN AL-ʼALMĀNĪ -- Wagner - 34. ORA VE-SIMḤA (1917)1 -- Häberl - 35. A 'MANDÆO-ARABIC' LETTER FROM LADY DROWER'S CORRESPONDENCE -- García-Arévalo - 36. AN ANECDOTE ABOUT JUḤĀ (1920S) -- REFERENCES -- Blank Page.