In The Shadow Of Arabic The Centrality Of Language To Arabic Culture Studies Presented To Ramzi Baalbaki On The Occasion Of His Sixtieth Birthday Ebook Bilal Orfali by Bilal Orfali 9004216138 instant download after payment.

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