Islam in Everyday Arabic Speech
Author: Piamenta
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9004661662
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The Muslim Conception of God and Human Welfare
Author: M Piamenta
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1983-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9004661824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApproaches to Arabic Linguistics
Author: Everhard Ditters
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 795
ISBN-13: 9004160159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Liber Amicorum discusses topics on the history of Arabic grammar, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic dialects, domains in which Kees Versteegh plays a leading role.
The Search for Arab Democracy
Author: Larbi Sadiki
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780231125802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow to be a "democrat" and a "Muslim" at the same time is the subject of ongoing contests. This book maps out the variety of voices contesting "Islam" and "democracy" in the Arab world, insisting that neither category can be taken as unitary or fixed. In the Arab Middle East, the contest is over "which", "whose", and "how much" democracy takes place within an existing contest over "which", "whose", and "how much" Islam must be given pre-eminence in the political and cultural sphere. There is a "Democracy" and there are "democracies." There is an "Islam" and there are "islams." Larbi Sadiki deploys the conceptual tools of contemporary Western political philosophy and theory to articulate and defend some provocative theses. The book challenges Eurocentric conceptions of democracy that all-too-frequently display a lack of concern for specificity and context; analyzes and interrogates Orientalist and Occidentalist discourses on democracy; and considers some of the justifications for democracy in the global arena, giving space for self-representation by women and Islamists, among others. Using interviews with Muslims from every social and economic stratum, the book shows how Arabs themselves understand, imagine, and view democracy.
Encyclopedia of Islam
Author: Juan Eduardo Campo
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 801
ISBN-13: 1438126964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the terms, concepts, personalities, historical events, and institutions that helped shape the history of this religion and the way it is practiced today.
Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel
Author: Yoel Shalom Perez
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0253063841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGalilee has been a crossroads of cultures, religions, and languages for centuries, as illustrated in these fascinating Bedouin folktales, which offer excellent examples of the Arabic narrative tradition of the Middle East. Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel collects nearly 60 traditional folktales, told mostly by women, that have been carefully translated in the same colloquial style in which they were told. These stories are grouped into themes of love and devotion, ghouls and demons, and animal stories. The work also includes phonetic transcription and linguistic annotation. Accompanying each folktale is a comprehensive ethnographic, folkloristic, and linguistic commentary, placing the tales in context with details on Galilee Bedouin dialects and the tribes themselves. A rich, multifaceted collection, Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel is an invaluable resource for linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and any reader interested in a tradition of storytelling handed down through the centuries.
Beyond the Written Word
Author: William Albert Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-03-11
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521448208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of 'scripture' as written religious text is re-examined, considering orally distributed sacred writings.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Author: Dilworth B. Parkinson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2003-12-19
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9027289905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume includes nine papers selected from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Four of the papers deal with the area of corpus linguistics (new for this series), including papers from both a computational and a variationist point of view. The other papers deal with Syntax, and with various aspects of Arabic Sociolinguistics.
The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān
Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-23
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521539340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the Qur'an (Koran), a text that has guided the lives of millions.
Jewish Life in Arabic Language and Jerusalem Arabic in Communal Perspective
Author: Moshe Piamenta
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-03
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9004348506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume deals with Judaeo-Jerusalem Arabic affected by Jewish socio-religious life, its interrelatedness with non-Jewish Jerusalem Arabic, and its erosion by youths through replacement by Hebrew. The socio-religious life of the Jewish community is first introduced, followed by descriptions of socio-linguistic processes of both dialect varieties, of integrating and discharging foreign borrowings, of lexico-semantic concord and contrast between both dialect varieties, of varieties relating to relative status of interlocutors, and of deteriorating Judaeo-Jerusalem Arabic replaced by modern Hebrew. A dictionary-like Arabic and Hebrew index ends the book. The diachronic and synchronic analyses and description of intricate and interrelated lexico-semantic communal dialectal varieties of Arabic and Hebrew in present-day Jerusalem is a most challenging linguistic achievement hopefully won here.
