Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia

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ISBN 13 : 9789004144941
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Book Synopsis Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia by : Clive Holes

Download or read book Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia written by Clive Holes and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid 1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them.

Visions of Zion

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479890995
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Book Synopsis Visions of Zion by : Erin C. MacLeod

Download or read book Visions of Zion written by Erin C. MacLeod and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. Repatriation is a must they cry. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in 1930s. They consider it the Promised Land, and repatriation is a cornerstone of their faith. Though Ethiopians see Rastafari as immigrants, the Rastafari see themselves as returning members of the Ethiopian diaspora. Ina Visions of Zion, Erin C. MacLeod offers the first in-depth investigation into how Ethiopians perceive Rastafari and Rastafarians within Ethiopia and the role this unique immigrant community plays within Ethiopian society. Rastafari are unusual among migrants, basing their movements on spiritual rather than economic choices. This volume offers those who study the movement a broader understanding of the implications of repatriation. Taking the Ethiopian perspective into account, it argues that migrant and diaspora identities are the products of negotiation, and it illuminates the implications of this negotiation for concepts of citizenship, as well as for our understandings of pan-Africanism and south-south migration. Providing a rare look at migration to a non-Western country, this volume also fills a gap in the broader immigration studies literature."

Strings and Threads

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066610
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Book Synopsis Strings and Threads by : Wolfgang Heimpel

Download or read book Strings and Threads written by Wolfgang Heimpel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Draffkorn Kilmer has had a long and fruitful career as an academic in Assyriology. After receiving her doctorate in Philadelphia and serving as assistant to Benno Landsberger in Chicago, she came to Berkeley in 1963 and stayed there for the long term, despite offers from other universities. During her career, in addition to her many contributions to Assyriology and ancient musicology, she served the university in various administrative functions. In Assyriology, her wide and varied interests included lexical texts, mathematics, animals, entertainment, and especially music. Her discoveries were often unexpected and dramatic. In this volume, the essays presented in her honor focus on many of Prof. Kilmer’s primary interests. The contributions are divided into two sections, reflecting the title, “Strings and Threads.” The “strings” portion of the volume collects essays that follow her interest in musicology and related matters, especially “music archaeology.” It is well known that she studied ancient Hurrian, Mesopotamian, and Ugaritic texts containing musical notations and/or songs, and has been at the forefront of decipherment and explanation of these texts. And a number of essays in this volume address various aspects of ancient music, whether it be the lyrics of the songs or the pictorial representation of music-making or the language in which music is described. In the “threads” portion of the volume are collected essays on various aspects of Mesopotamian narrative literature, an area to which Anne contributed significant insight on the structure of compositions and verbal wordplay used by ancient authors. A number of the articles in the volume follow up on or parallel Prof. Kilmer’s work in this area. Contributors include: G. Azarpay, D. Collon, J. Cooper, R. L. Crocker, D. Foxvog, E. Hickmann, A. B. Knapp, E. Leichty, S. L. Macgregor, S. B. Noegel, D. Pickworth, E. Robson, J. C. Ross, D. Schmandt-Besserat, D. Stronach, and R. L. Zettler. The volume concludes with a bibliography and an index of the works of A. D. Kilmer.

History, Texts and Art in Early Babylonia

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504770
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Book Synopsis History, Texts and Art in Early Babylonia by : Piotr Steinkeller

Download or read book History, Texts and Art in Early Babylonia written by Piotr Steinkeller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used by the modern historian to attain, if not a reliable record of histoire événementielle, a comprehensive picture of how the ancients understood their history. The book focuses on the history of early Babylonian kingship, as it evolved over a period from Late Uruk down to Old Babylonian times, and the impact of the concepts of kingship on contemporaneous history writing and visual art. Here comparisons are drawn between Babylonia and similar developments in ancient Egypt, China and Mesoamerica. Other issues treated is the intersection between history writing and the scholarly, lexical, and literary traditions in early Babylonia; and the question of how the modern historian should approach the study of ancient sources of "historical" nature. Such a broad and comprehensive overview is novel in Mesopotamian studies to date. As such, it should contribute to an improved and more nuanced understanding of early Babylonian history.

Persian

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317404394
Total Pages : 393 pages
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Book Synopsis Persian by : Saeed Yousef

Download or read book Persian written by Saeed Yousef and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to the grammar system for intermediate to advanced learners of Persian. It presents an accessible and systematic description of the language, focusing on real patterns of use in contemporary Persian. The book is organised to promote a thorough understanding of Persian; its structure, its sound system and the formation of words, phrases and sentence construction. It offers a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the language, providing clear explanations and examples of each point. Persian: A Comprehensive Grammar is the essential reference work on Persian grammar for all learners and users of the language.

Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature

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Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3487154366
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature by : Sebastian Günther

Download or read book Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature written by Sebastian Günther and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded papers from the International Workshop "Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Prose Literature and Poetry," held June 30-July 1, 2011 at the Lichtenberg Kolleg for Advanced Studies, University of Geottingen.

Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing with the Gods

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ISBN 13 : 9783868351095
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Book Synopsis Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing with the Gods by : Ulla Susanne Koch

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Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004311106
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style written by Clive Holes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid 1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. The present Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style, is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest. Volume I: Glossary, published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume II: Ethnographic Texts, published in 2005, presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays, covering major aspects of the pre-oil culture of the Gulf and the initial stages of the transition to the modern era: pearl diving, agriculture, communal relations, marriage, childhood, domestic life, work. Excerpts from local dialect poems concerned with these subjects are also included.

Language Contact in Modern Uyghur

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Publisher : Harrassowitz
ISBN 13 : 9783447106313
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Language Contact in Modern Uyghur by : Aminem Memtimin

Download or read book Language Contact in Modern Uyghur written by Aminem Memtimin and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is about Modern Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken mainly by around 11 million Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the northwestern part of the People's Republic of China. It describes and analyzes the linguistic and historical consequences of contact-induced change in evidence in Modern Uyghur in both their linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects, based on empirical material. Most relevant contact languages are typologically quite different from each other and from Turkic and belong to different genetic groups: Semitic (Arabic), Iranian (Persian), Slavic (Russian) and Sino-Tibetan (Chinese). The only contact languages which are typologically similar to Turkic are the Mongolic ones; this important contact situation has hitherto not received the interest it deserves in scholarly literature. Although much of our subject matter is in the past, our present-day material lends itself to the contrast of five different types of language interaction. We present detailed accounts of various aspects of the integration of foreign morphological units into Uyghur, and phonetic and phonological changes of elements copied from spoken and written, standard and dialect varieties of the sources languages. We have listed types of semantic classification observable for the different contact languages, looking at the competition between terms from these languages during the past and present in the contact scenarios offered by Uyghur.

Arabic Historical Dialectology

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191005061
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book Arabic Historical Dialectology written by Clive Holes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. It specifically investigates the evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, in contrast to the many existing studies that focus on written Classical or Modern Standard Arabic. The volume begins with a discursive introduction that deals with important issues in the general scholarly context, including the indigenous myth and probable reality of the history of Arabic; Arabic dialect geography and typology; types of internally and externally motivated linguistic change; social indexicalisation; and pidginization and creolization in Arabic-speaking communities. Most chapters then focus on developments in a specific region - Mauritania, the Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant, the Northern Fertile Crescent, the Gulf, and South Arabia - with one exploring Judaeo-Arabic, a group of varieties historically spread over a wider area. The remaining two chapters in the volume examine individual linguistic features of particular historical interest and controversy, specifically the origin and evolution of the b- verbal prefix, and the adnominal linker -an/-in. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the linguistic and social history of Arabic as well as to comparative linguists interested in topics such as linguistic typology and language change.

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 1 Glossary

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004464565
Total Pages : 642 pages
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Download or read book Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 1 Glossary written by Clive Holes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume I, Glossary is a comprehensive vocabulary of the 'uneducated' Bahraini Arabic dialects, drawn from a data-base of hundreds of hours of natural conversation gathered in the mid-1970s.

Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900434991X
Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kanz al-fawāʾid fī tanwīʿ al-mawāʾid, a fourteenth-century cookbook, is unique for its variety and comprehensive coverage of contemporary Egyptian cuisine. It includes, in addition to instructions for the cook, a treasure trove of 830 recipes of dishes, digestives, refreshing beverages, and more. It is the only surviving cookbook from a period when Cairo was a flourishing metropolis and a cultural haven for people of diverse ethnicities and nationalities. Now available for the first time in English, it has been meticulously translated and supplemented with a comprehensive introduction, glossary, and 117 color illustrations to initiate readers into the world of the Kanz al-fawāʾid. The twenty-two modern adaptations of Kanz recipes will inspire further experimentations. It is a valuable resource for scholars of medieval material culture, and for all lovers of good food and cookbooks.

Refutation of the Koran

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781452867830
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Refutation of the Koran written by and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of Riccoldo's "Confutatio Alcorani" is a must-have for researchers in the areas of Medieval European and Muslim relations, the history of Dominican missionary efforts, the reception of the works of Riccoldo (Pennini) of Monte Croce, and Renaissance perspectives on Islam.

Chronological Overview of Pottery from Asyut

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Publisher : Harrassowitz
ISBN 13 : 9783447106214
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Chronological Overview of Pottery from Asyut by : Teodozja Rzeuska

Download or read book Chronological Overview of Pottery from Asyut written by Teodozja Rzeuska and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gebel Asyut al-gharbi, one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, is crucial in understanding both its history and culture of this country. Despite a great wealth of remains our knowledge of Asyut and some periods of time concerning the site is still scant. Contrary to wide-held belief, activities on the gebel do not primarily date to the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom; the history of the site is much longer and it continues to hide many secrets.00The first and most important goal posed by Teodozja I. Rzeuska is to present the lesser known parts of the history of the Asyut necropolis, those that are under-represented in the texts, as well as those for which the archaeological evidence is insufficient. This is where the ceramic material has proven to be an invaluable source which helped to fill gaps in our knowledge. The second goal is to present the unique character of local pottery in Asyut, especially in comparison with ceramics found in other regions of Egypt.

Arabic in Contact

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263620
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Book Synopsis Arabic in Contact by : Stefano Manfredi

Download or read book Arabic in Contact written by Stefano Manfredi and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings together leading scholars who address a variety of topics related to contact-induced change, the emergence of contact languages, codeswitching, as well as language ideologies in contact situations. It offers insights from different theoretical approaches in connection with research fields such as descriptive and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and language acquisition. It provides the general linguistic public with an updated, cutting edge overview and appreciation of themes and problems in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguists alike. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004107632
Total Pages : 648 pages
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Book Synopsis Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia by : Clive Holes

Download or read book Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia written by Clive Holes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia," Volume I, "Glossary" is a comprehensive vocabulary of the 'uneducated' Bahraini Arabic dialects, drawn from a data-base of hundreds of hours of natural conversation gathered in the mid-1970s.

Terms of Address

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110848112
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Book Synopsis Terms of Address by : Friederike Braun

Download or read book Terms of Address written by Friederike Braun and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.