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Subject(s)

• Judeo-Arabic language—Dialects—Egypt—Texts [Browse]
• Judeo-Arabic literature—Egypt—History and criticism [Browse]
• Jews—Egypt—Languages [Browse]
• Arabic language—Dialects [Browse]

Series

• Études sur le judaïsme médiéval t. 70. [More in this series]
• Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; tome LXX [More in this series]

Summary note

Ørum translates and analyzes three parallel 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Egypt. These manuscripts present a story (whose earliest version is attributed to Kab al-Ahbar) about Jesus reviving the skull of a deceased king. The skull narrates his encounter with the Angel of Death, a painful purgatory and descension to hell. The manuscripts reveal a wide spectrum of interesting written and spoken Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic variety features and Ørum pays special attention to signs of linguistic divergence from the standardized written ('fusha') and spoken (ammiyya) variety. The unique sociolinguistic situation of the Jewish Egyptian community makes this book an important contribution to those working on Judaeo-Arabic in general, but also for students or scholars interested in Egyptian Arabic historical dialectology and sociolinguistics.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Language note

Parallel text in English and Judeo-Arabic; translated from the Judeo-Arabic.

Contents

• 1. Introduction. Judaeo-Arabic Texts: The Presence of a Wide Spectrum of Written and Spoken Varieties ; Middle Arabic ; Standard Arabic and the Nahḍa ; Egyptian Arabic, Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Non-Standard Cairene
• 2. The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition. The Jewish Community in Cairo During the 19th Century ; On the Story ʼUṣṣit il-Gumguma
• 3. Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʼUṣṣit il-Gumguma 'The Story of the Skull'. Introduction to the Three Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts ; Reading Guidelines ; ʼUṣṣit il-Gumguma "The Story of the Skull'
• 4. Linguistic Analysis. Orthography and Phonology ; Morphology ; Syntax ; Lexical Features
• 5. Summary and Concluding Remarks. Orthography and Phonology ; Morphology ; Syntax ; Lexical Features
• Appendix 1: Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel Versions
• Appendix 2: Facsimile of 'Ramle--Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25' (GAM).

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Other title(s)

• Story of the skull
• Qiṣṣat al-jumjumah.

ISBN

• 9789004345621 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
• 9004345620 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))

LCCN

2017021459

OCLC

985639807

RCP

H - S

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