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The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998; US$ 165.00The 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'
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 25.87Hauptbeschreibung 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 Poetry
BRILL 2005; US$ 184.00This 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 Arabia
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 42.00A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. more...
Approaches to Arabic Linguistics
BRILL 2007; US$ 390.00Covers Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar. more...
Approaches to Arabic dialects
BRILL 2003; US$ 197.00The 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 Novel
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95This 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 Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 195.00This 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 Occident
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95This 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 Nights
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00Full 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...









