Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East : : Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff / / ed. by A. H. Mathias Zahniser, Asma Afsaruddin.

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• MitwirkendeR: Afsaruddin, Asma,; Allen, Roger,; Arbeitman, Yoël L.,; Boullata, Issa J.,; Carter, Michael G.,; Chyet, Michael L.,; Daniels, Peter T.,; Ende, Werner,; Goedicke, Hans,; Greppin, John A. C.,; Hary, Benjamin,; Heinrichs, Wolfhart,; Hoberman, Robert D.,; Hodge, Carleton T.,; Jastrow, Otto,; Jungraithmayr, Herrmann,; Kaye, Alan S.,; Killean, Carolyn,; Makdisi, George,; Malti-Douglas, Fedwa,; Meisami, Julie Scott,; Odisho, Edward Y.,; Rendsburg, Gary A.,; Ryding, Karin C.,; Römer, Claudia,; Sabar, Yona,; Schall, Anton,; Singer, Hans-Rudolf,; Stowasser, Barbara Freyer,; Stowasser, Karl,; Vycichl, Werner,; Woidich, Manfred,; Zahniser, A. H. Mathias,
• HerausgeberIn: Afsaruddin, Asma,; Zahniser, A. H. Mathias,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Publications by Georg Krotkoff --; Abbreviations --; Georg Krotkoff as Scholar and Teacher --; Part 1 Humanism, Culture, and Literature --; Inquiry into the Origins of Humanism --; Humanism and the Language Sciences in Medieval Islam --; Cosmic Numbers: The Symbolic Design of Ni z a m ÿ ’s Haft Paykar --; Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse --; From Revolt to Resignation: The Life of Shaykh Mḥsin Sharāra --; Sūra as Guidance and Exhortation: The Composition of Sūrat al-Nisā --; The Hijāb: How a Curtain Became an Institution and a Cultural Symbol --; The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel and Short Story in Arabic --; An Arabic Poem in an Israeli Controversy: Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s “Passing Words” --; Bi-l'Arabī al-faṣīḥ: An Egyptian Play Looks at Contemporary Arab Society --; Part 2 Arabic --; Learning Arabic: A Lifetime Commitment --; The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism --; Al-Khalīl’s Legacy --; The Etymology of Muqarnas : Some Observations --; Egyptian Arabic and Dialect Contact in Historical Perspective --; On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic --; Ein arabischer Text aus Constantine (Algerien) --; Part 3 Aramaic --; Zur griechischen Neben ü berlieferung im Syrischen --; Syriac Loanwords in Classical Armenian --; The Modern Chaldean Pronunciation of Classical Syriac --; Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 --; Zum neuaram ä ischen Dialekt von Hassane (Provinz ´ı rnak) --; A Preliminary List of Aramaic Loanwords in Kurdish --; The Story of Balaam and His She-Ass in Four Neo-Aramaic Dialects: A Comparative Study of the Translations --; A Comparative Study of Pet Names in English and Assyrian --; The Trickle Down Approach --; Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen --; Akkadian lišan-u-m , Arabic lišan-u-n : Which Is the Older Form? --; Part 5 Ancient Egyptian, Ottoman Turkish, and Other Linguistic Matters --; You Gotta Have Heart --; The Protean Arabic Abjad --; A Matter of Inconsistency: Variation of Arabic Loanwords in English --; The Language and Prose Style of Bostān’s Süleymānnāme --; Language and Script in Ancient Egypt --; Contributors --; Index of Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781575065083; 9783110745269
• DOI: 10.1515/9781575065083?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by A. H. Mathias Zahniser, Asma Afsaruddin.

Essays 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.