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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• 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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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