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