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Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung und Dialekte: Beiträge einer Tagung im Juli 2008 in Erlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischer
edited by Shabo Talay and Hartmut Bobzin
English summary: This volume contains a selection of 15 contributions stemming from a conference of the same name held in July 2008 in honor of the Erlanger Orientalist Wolfdietrich Fischer. Wolfdietrich Fischer, who held the chair of Oriental Philology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1964 to 1995, provided impetus in his dissertation on the study of the colloquial Arabic for the world-renowned Arab dialectology in Germany, ...
Hardback. Price US$84.00
Individuation and the Shaping of Personal Identity: A Comparative Study of the Modern Novel
by Frode Saugestad
This book contributes to comparative literary studies analysing the process of individuation and the shaping of personal and national identity in the modern novel. Four distinct literatures are examined: Norwegian through the work of Knut Hamsun; Irish through the work of James Joyce; Egyptian through the work of Naguib Mahfouz; Sudanese through the work of Tayeb Salih.
304p (Reichert Verlag 2009)
Hardback. Price US$78.00
Poetik der Fremdheit: Palästinensische und irakische Lyrik des Exils
by Stephan Milich
This first study on contemporary Arabic exile poetry focuses on four poets who contributed essentially to the innovation of the contemporary Arabic "Qasida": Sa'di Yusuf (born 1934) and Kamal Sabti (1955-2006) from Iraq as well as Zakariya Muhammad (born 1951) and Ghassan Zaqtan (born 1954) from Palestine. The comparative work offers a profound interpretation and exhaustive analysis of the main features, topics and motives relevant to Arabic ...
Hardback. Price US$134.00
The Arabic Language Across the Ages
edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala and Nader Al Jallad
This volume, which is based on a conference held in Cordoba, brings together scholars studying texts, Arabic-related registers, and dialects belonging to different periods and areas throughout the centuries from a philological and linguistic perspective. The outcome is a significant contribution to the investigation of geographical and diachronic criteria used to facilitate the analysis of both old and present linguistic entities. 182p, 14 col ...
Hardback. Price US$168.00
Arabische Handschriften: Reihe B. Teil 10. Arabische Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek zu München. Band 3. Cod. arab. 2300-2552
edited by Kathrin Müller
English summary: This catalog contains descriptions of 310 Arabic manuscripts with a total of 559 works. They were bought from Beirut by the Bavarian State Library in Munich in the 1970s. About one-sixth of the manuscripts are written in Maghreb ductus, and therefore hail from northern Africa. Characteristic of the content is the high proportion of works from dogmatic theology and prayer, as well as from the area of mysticism. Less than ...
Hardback. Price US$135.00
The Development of Arabic as a Written Language: Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 40, 2010
edited by M.C.A. MacDonald
Introduction: The development of Arabic as a written language (Christian Julien Robin); Ancient Arabia and the written word (M.C.A. Macdonald); Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia (Robert Hoyland); A glimpse of the development of the Nabataean script into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material (Laïla Nehmé); The ...
Paperback. Price US$60.00
Syntax der Arabischen Schriftsprache der Gegenwart: Teil II - Die Verbalgruppe
edited by Wolfdietrich Fischer, Michael Langer, and Hashem El-Ayoubi
English summary: The Arabic verb has a number of semantic and syntactic features in which it differs from those of European languages. This second volume of Syntax der arabischen Schriftsprache der Gegenwart for the first time describes the semantic profiles of the Arabic verbs and shows how the tense system, with its two basic forms perfect and imperfect, satisfies both aspectual and temporal requirements. In addition, the role of ...
Hardback. Price US$168.00
L'arabe yéménite de Sanaa
by S. Naim
English summary: Its placement within the arabic-speaking region, its political and economic isolation, and its geography all make Yemen one of the most dialectically diverse countries. This study is based on primary research in the field and pays particular attention to the social usages of Yemeni Arabic within the illiterate generation. French text.
French description:
Son emplacement aux confins de l'aire arabophone, ...
Paperback. Price US$41.00
Arabic Minimalist Story: Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-Colonial Era
by Ibrahim Taha
This unique study aims at characterizing the Arabic minimalist story as a new genre of narrative fiction that exploits many austere devices of post-modern strategies to exhibit a variety of socio-political ideological matters that affect the fundamental needs of the common people in all Arab states. One of the major aims of this study is to expose the reader to the particularity of the Arabic minimalist story on both levels, thematic and ...
Hardback. Price US$84.00
The Lakhmids of Hira: Sons of the Water of Heaven
by Yasmine Zahran, with an introduction by Robert Hoyland
The first Lakhmids are thought to have emigrated from Yemen in the second century. Establishing their empire across what is now Iraq and Syria, and bordering the lands of the Persians and the Ottomans, the Lakhmids were a major force among the great pre-Islamic Arab peoples.
Lakhmid culture and learning spread widely, and carried much influence. Hira, the centre of the Lakhmid kingdom, was where the early Arabic alphabet was ...
Hardback. Price US$37.95
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