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Subject(s)

• Arabic philology [Browse]

Editor

• Kasher, Almog, 1977- [Browse]
• Sheyhatovitch, Beata [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 101. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, ; Volume 101 [More in this series]

Summary note

From Sībawayhi to ʾAḥmad Ḥasan al-Zayyāt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition, a volume edited by Beata Sheyhatovitch and Almog Kasher, brings together nine articles written by leading scholars of the Arabic linguistic tradition. These articles trace the development of the tradition, from Sībawayhi to modern Arabic language academies. The authors shed light on lesser-known aspects of this tradition, such as little-investigated grammatical structures, and problematic spots of the ʿamal theory and the grammatical terminology. They explore the discipline’s relations with stylistics and logic, the Arab grammarians’ influence on Jewish Bible exegesis, and modern applications of the medieval Arabic grammatical theory. This volume showcases the richness of the medieval Arabic linguistic literature and the diversity of ideas found within it.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Unḥu hād̲ā l-naḥwa... / Beata Sheyhatovitch and Almog Kasher
• In and out of the Metalanguage: Some Reconsiderations of the Technical Vocabulary of Arabic Grammar / Michael G .Carter
• Views Concerning the ʻāmil of the Predicate of the Nominal Sentence Incorrectly Ascribed to Sībawayhi / Aryeh Levin
• Reading Poetry with Sībawayhi: Ittisāʻ/saʻat al-kalām and Metaphorical Thinking in the Kitāb / Avigail Noy
• Aspects of Syntactic Effect (ʻamal) in Arabic Grammatical Tradition:The Term šuġl in Sībawayhi's al-Kitāb and Beyond / Almog Kasher
• Less Familiar Types of ʼan according to Arabic Grammarians / Arik Sadan
• A Sparkle in the Debate about the Word ʼāmīn Used in Supplication and Its Rules in Arabic, by ʼAbū Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḫaššāb (d. 567/1172), an Annotated Translation / Jean N. Druel
• The Theory of Definition in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʼAstarābād̲ī / Beata Sheyhatovitch
• Comparison to Arabic as an Exegetical Method in Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi's Commentary on the Bible / Avi Tal
• The Arabic Language Academy in Cairo vis-à-vis a New Grammatical Phrase: The Case of sāfara Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥasan / Shlomit Shraybom-Shivtiel
• Index.

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ISBN

90-04-42321-4

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004423213

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