Projecting a New Empire : : Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Imperial Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods /

Projecting a New Empire : : Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Imperial Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods / / Eugenio Garosi.

Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins constitute the main evidence for the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic language emerging from the complex fabric of Graeco-Roman-Iranian Late Antiquity. This volume examines these sources in order to gauge the social ecology of Arabic writing wi...

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Garosi, Eugenio,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East , 42
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXI, 443 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Note on Conventions
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Becoming Empire
  • Semantics of Empire
  • Empires and Arab History
  • Views on Early Islamic History
  • A Review of the Documentary Evidence and Coping with its Limitations
  • Previous Studies
  • Approach and Methodology: Form over Substance
  • The Definitional Trap: A Note on Terminology and Anachronism
  • Timeframe
  • Organization of this Study
  • I Towards an Ecology of Documentary Arabic
  • Introduction
  • A Sudden Language: Pre-Islamic Arabic Writing and the Epigraphical Habit
  • The Rise and Dissolution of “Imperial Arabic” (From Reichssprache to Lingua Franca)
  • Concluding Remarks
  • II Imperial Arabic: Between Text and Visual Text
  • Introduction
  • Images of the Word
  • The Word and the Image: An Arab Late Antiquity
  • From Image to Word
  • The Eye of the Beholders
  • Conclusion
  • III Shaping Official Umayyad Arabic
  • Introduction: Reichsarabisch or Early Islamic Official Arabic?
  • If the Mountain Will Come: Arabic Letters
  • If the Mountain Will Not Come: Official Inscriptions
  • Umayyad Official Documentary Standard as Early Islamic Documentary Standard
  • Conclusion
  • IV A Culture of Ambivalence
  • Negotiating “Arab Style”
  • Shifting Boundaries between Scribal Cultures in the Umayyad Empire
  • Parallel Scribal Traditions: Numismatics
  • Parallel Scribal Traditions: Independent Arab-Style Scribal Practices
  • Conclusion
  • V An Empire of Words
  • Regional Idiolects in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Documentary Arabic
  • The Loanwords in Imperial Arabic (640–800)
  • Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Documentary Arabic
  • Terminology and Regional Settings: The Role of Umayyad Syria and the Looming Shadow of Abbasid Iraq
  • Conclusion
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1: Formal and Layout Structure of Early Islamic Arabic Official Letters
  • Appendix 2: Formal and Layout Structure of Early Islamic Official Inscriptions
  • Appendix 3: Comparative Table of Early Islamic Arab-style Letters
  • Bibliography
  • Indices
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum I: Papyri
  • Index Locorum II: Inscriptions

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