In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture, Studies Presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 63)

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 Baalbaki s 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 Qur nic studies, adab, folk literature, sufism, and poetry. Contributors include: Nadia Anghelescu, Georgine Ayoub, Aziz Azmeh, Monique Bernards, Georges Bohas, Gerhard B wering, Michael Carter, Everhard Ditters, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hassan Hamz, Peter Heath, Pierre Larcher, Ibrahim Ben Mrad, Bilal Orfali, Wad d al-Q, Angelika Neuwirth, Karin Ryding, Yasir Suleiman, Kees Versteegh, and David Wilmsen AcknowledgementsPrefaceBibliography Ramzi BaalbakiHistory of Arabic Grammar1. Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of ArabicYasir Suleiman2. The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Diffferent?Michael G. Carter3. Khabar / Insha', une fois encorePierre Larcher4. From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other IdentifijiersNadia Anghelescu5. La coordination a un constituant du noyau en arabeHassan Hamze6. Mustaqim, muhal, hasan, qabih: Les criteres de recevabilite dans le Kitab de SibawayhiGeorgine Ayoub7. An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganief's Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958)Kees VersteeghProfiles of Grammarians8. Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic StudiesMonique Bernards9. Al-Zajjaj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative ContextWadad al-Qadi10. Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some PoemsGeert Jan van GelderLinguistics11. Linguistic Observations on the Theonym AllahAziz Al-Azmeh12. Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li-Karin Christina Ryding13. Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of Sibawayhi's Dispute with the Nahwiyyun over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object PronounsDavid WilmsenStyle, Lexicography, and Phonosymbolism14. Homonymie, polysemie et criteres de distinctionIbrahim Ben Mrad15. Sulami's Treatise on the Science of the Letters ('ilm al-huruf)Gerhard Boewering16. Style formulaire et parallelisme dans le CoranGeorges Bohas17. Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular EpicsPeter HeathArabic Contextualized18. Ghazal and Grammar: al-Ba'uni's Tadmin Alfijiyyat Ibn Malik fi l-GhazalBilal Orfali19. The Qur'an as a Late Antique TextAngelika Neuwirth20. A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard ArabicEverhard DittersIndex of Arabic TermsIndex of Proper NounsNotes on the Contributors 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 Baalbaki's 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 Qur'ānic 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, Wadād al-Qāḍī, Angelika Neuwirth, Karin Ryding, Yasir Suleiman, Kees Versteegh, and David Wilmsen 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. It provides an interesting glimpse into the early medieval and modern traditions related to the Arabic language, its grammar, historical development, and demonstrate its centrality to other fields of study such as qur'anic studies, adab, folk literature, sufism, and poetry Edited By Bilal Orfali. Bibliography Of Ramzi Baalbaki: P. Xv-xxiii. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.