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  • The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semiticby Robert R. Ratcliffe

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998; US$ 165.00

    The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic historical linguistics: the highly allomorphic system... more...

  • The 'vision of the victors' and 'the vision of the vanquished'by Nina Liewald

    Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 25.87

    Hauptbeschreibung 2008 was the year of the 220th anniversary of permanent white settlement in Australia - a year of celebration, but not for all citizens. The iconography of Australia packaged for the tourist industry is full of Aboriginal motifs, but the ongoing debate about frontier conflict, violence, dispossession and different interpretations... more...

  • Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi and Fatimid Da'wa Poetryby Tahera Qutbuddin

    BRILL 2005; US$ 184.00

    This study analyzes the committed religio-political poetry of al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi, chief missionary for the Fatimids in the fifth/eleventh century, demonstrating his founding of the tradition of ''Fatimid da'wa (religious mission) poetry? that has flourished after him for a thousand years. more...

  • The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabiaby Roger D. Woodard

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 42.00

    A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. more...

  • Approaches to Arabic Linguisticsby Everhard Ditters; Harald Motzki

    BRILL 2007; US$ 390.00

    Covers Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar. more...

  • Approaches to Arabic dialectsby Martine Haak; Rudolf de Jong; Kees Versteegh

    BRILL 2003; US$ 197.00

    The topics include quadriliteral verbs in the Arabic dialects of eastern Arabia, technicalities and terminology of raiding and warfare as revealed by Bedouin oral narratives, variation and change in Arabic urban vernaculars, ideophones in Nigerian Arabic, unmarked feminine nouns in modern Arabic dialects, the possibility of gender linked sound chan more...

  • Arab Culture and the Novelby Muhammad Siddiq

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95

    This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes ? religious, social, political, and psychological ? of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries.... more...

  • Arab Linguisticsby Michael G. Carter

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 195.00

    This volume provides an analysis of a famous medieval Arabic grammatical text, al-Ājurrūmiya (c. 1300), as commented on by a?-?hirbīnī (d. 1570). This edition includes the original text and a translation into English, as well as extensive comments and annotations, with the aim of making accessible both to Arabists and non-Arabists... more...

  • Arab Representations of the Occidentby Rasheed El-Enany

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95

    This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research El-Enany examines the attitudes as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent, nineteenth century. It constitutes an original addition... more...

  • The Arabian Nightsby Richard Burton; A.S. Byatt

    Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00

    Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights... more...