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In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture
Studies Presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday
Series: - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 63
Editor:
The collection of articles in this volume is dedicated to Ramzi Baalbaki of the American University of Beirut on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The volume reflects the central themes of Ramzi Baalbakiâs scholarly work: history of Arabic grammar, Arabic lexicography, Arabic linguistics, comparative Semitics, Arabic epigraphy, and textual editing of classical texts. It provides intellectual, literary, and social historians, as well as Arabists, philologists, and linguists with an interesting glimpse into the early medieval and modern traditions related to the Arabic language, its grammar, historical development, and demonstrates its centrality to other fields of study such as QurâÄnic studies, adab, folk literature, sufism, and poetry.
Contributors include: Nadia Anghelescu, Georgine Ayoub, Aziz Azmeh, Monique Bernards, Georges Bohas, Gerhard Böwering, Michael Carter, Everhard Ditters, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hassan Hamzé, Peter Heath, Pierre Larcher, Ibrahim Ben Mrad, Bilal Orfali, WadÄd al-QÄá¸Ä«, Angelika Neuwirth, Karin Ryding, Yasir Suleiman, Kees Versteegh, and David Wilmsen
Contributors include: Nadia Anghelescu, Georgine Ayoub, Aziz Azmeh, Monique Bernards, Georges Bohas, Gerhard Böwering, Michael Carter, Everhard Ditters, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hassan Hamzé, Peter Heath, Pierre Larcher, Ibrahim Ben Mrad, Bilal Orfali, WadÄd al-QÄá¸Ä«, Angelika Neuwirth, Karin Ryding, Yasir Suleiman, Kees Versteegh, and David Wilmsen
Bilal Orfali, Ph.D. (2009), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of several articles and books on classical Arabic literature and Islamic mysticism.
"[L]e volume revêt un grand intérêt pour tous ceux qui sâintéressent à la langue arabe et, plus particulièrement, aux questions linguistiques quâelle soulève, ainsi quâà sa longue et riche tradition grammaticale. La qualité générale des articles, ainsi que lâérudition des contributeurs, représentent le plus bel hommage à une figure incontournable dans le domaine, un des pionniers des études sur lâhistoire de la grammaire arabe." â Francesco Binaghi, in: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée
"All things considered, the editor has been successful in putting together a volume, which represents the multifaceted nature of research on the history of Arabic grammar and Arabic lexicography and encompasses a wide range of topics as well as of different theoretical perspectives on these subjects. The papers include linguistics and socio-historical analyses, detailed case studies describing the development of different grammatical traditions as well as discussions about formal aspects of both classical and modern standard Arabic grammar. Despite this great heterogeneity, the volume constitutes a coherent collection of studies demonstrating the strength of the relationship interrelating language, culture and religion in the arabophone world." â Stefano Manfredi, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 103 (2013): 451-453
"All things considered, the editor has been successful in putting together a volume, which represents the multifaceted nature of research on the history of Arabic grammar and Arabic lexicography and encompasses a wide range of topics as well as of different theoretical perspectives on these subjects. The papers include linguistics and socio-historical analyses, detailed case studies describing the development of different grammatical traditions as well as discussions about formal aspects of both classical and modern standard Arabic grammar. Despite this great heterogeneity, the volume constitutes a coherent collection of studies demonstrating the strength of the relationship interrelating language, culture and religion in the arabophone world." â Stefano Manfredi, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 103 (2013): 451-453
Acknowledgements
Preface
Bibliography Ramzi Baalbaki
History of Arabic Grammar
1. Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of Arabic
Yasir Suleiman
2. The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Diffferent?
Michael G. Carter
3. Khabar / InshÄʾ, une fois encore
Pierre Larcher
4. From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other Identifijiers
Nadia Anghelescu
5. La coordination à un constituant du noyau en arabe
Hassan Hamzé
6. MustaqÄ«m, muḥÄl, ḥasan, qabīḥ: Les critères de recevabilité dans le KitÄb de SÄ«bawayhi
Georgine Ayoub
7. An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganiefâs Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958)
Kees Versteegh
Profiles of Grammarians
8. Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies
Monique Bernards
9. Al-ZajjÄj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative Context
WadÄd al-QÄá¸Ä«
10. Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some Poems
Geert Jan van Gelder
Linguistics
11. Linguistic Observations on the Theonym AllÄh
Aziz Al-Azmeh
12. Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li-
Karin Christina Ryding
13. Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of SÄ«bawayhiâs Dispute with the NaḥwiyyÅ«n over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object Pronouns
David Wilmsen
Style, Lexicography, and Phonosymbolism
14. Homonymie, polysémie et critères de distinction
Ibrahim Ben Mrad
15. SulamÄ«âs Treatise on the Science of the Letters (Ê¿ilm al-ḥurÅ«f)
Gerhard Böwering
16. Style formulaire et parallélisme dans le Coran
Georges Bohas
17. Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular Epics
Peter Heath
Arabic Contextualized
18. Ghazal and Grammar: al-BÄÊ¿Å«nÄ«âs Taá¸mÄ«n Alfijiyyat Ibn MÄlik fÄ« l-Ghazal
Bilal Orfali
19. The QurʾÄn as a Late Antique Text
Angelika Neuwirth
20. A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic
Everhard Ditters
Index of Arabic Terms
Index of Proper Nouns
Notes on the Contributors
Preface
Bibliography Ramzi Baalbaki
History of Arabic Grammar
1. Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of Arabic
Yasir Suleiman
2. The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Diffferent?
Michael G. Carter
3. Khabar / InshÄʾ, une fois encore
Pierre Larcher
4. From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other Identifijiers
Nadia Anghelescu
5. La coordination à un constituant du noyau en arabe
Hassan Hamzé
6. MustaqÄ«m, muḥÄl, ḥasan, qabīḥ: Les critères de recevabilité dans le KitÄb de SÄ«bawayhi
Georgine Ayoub
7. An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganiefâs Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958)
Kees Versteegh
Profiles of Grammarians
8. Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies
Monique Bernards
9. Al-ZajjÄj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative Context
WadÄd al-QÄá¸Ä«
10. Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some Poems
Geert Jan van Gelder
Linguistics
11. Linguistic Observations on the Theonym AllÄh
Aziz Al-Azmeh
12. Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li-
Karin Christina Ryding
13. Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of SÄ«bawayhiâs Dispute with the NaḥwiyyÅ«n over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object Pronouns
David Wilmsen
Style, Lexicography, and Phonosymbolism
14. Homonymie, polysémie et critères de distinction
Ibrahim Ben Mrad
15. SulamÄ«âs Treatise on the Science of the Letters (Ê¿ilm al-ḥurÅ«f)
Gerhard Böwering
16. Style formulaire et parallélisme dans le Coran
Georges Bohas
17. Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular Epics
Peter Heath
Arabic Contextualized
18. Ghazal and Grammar: al-BÄÊ¿Å«nÄ«âs Taá¸mÄ«n Alfijiyyat Ibn MÄlik fÄ« l-Ghazal
Bilal Orfali
19. The QurʾÄn as a Late Antique Text
Angelika Neuwirth
20. A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic
Everhard Ditters
Index of Arabic Terms
Index of Proper Nouns
Notes on the Contributors
All those interested in intellectual and social history, Arabic grammar, linguistics, philology, and literature.