Table Of ContentMiddle Arabic and Mixed Arabic
Studies in
Semitic Languages and
Linguistics
Editorial board
T. Muraoka, A.D. Rubin and C.H.M. Versteegh
VOLUME 64
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Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic
Diachrony and Synchrony
Edited by
Liesbeth Zack and Arie Schippers
LEiDEn • bOSTOn
2012
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Middle Arabic and mixed Arabic : diachrony and synchrony / edited by Liesbeth Zack and Arie
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Papers in English and French.
“The articles contained in this volume are based on papers read at the Second Conference
of the Association internationale pour l’etude du moyen arabe et des varietes mixtes de l’arabe
(AiMA), which was held at the University of Amsterdam in 2007.”
includes bibliographical references and index.
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COnTEnTS
List of illustrations .......................................................................................... vii
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ ix
introduction: Middle and Mixed Arabic, A new Trend in
Arabic Studies ............................................................................................. 1
Johannes den Heijer
Moyen arabe et variétés mixtes de l’arabe : premier essai de
bibliographie, Supplément no 1 ............................................................. 27
Jérôme Lentin
Some Remarks about Middle Arabic and Saʿadya Gaon’s Arabic
Translation of the Pentateuch in Manuscripts of Jewish,
Samaritan, Coptic Christian, and Muslim Provenance .................. 51
Berend Jan Dikken
Linguistic and Cultural Features of an iraqi Judeo-Arabic Text
of the qiṣaṣ al-ʾanbiyāʾ Genre ................................................................. 83
Lutz Edzard
Deux types de moyen arabe dans la version arabe du discours
41 de Grégoire de nazianze ? .................................................................. 95
Jacques Grand’Henry
Présentation du livre Le Conte du Portefaix et des Trois Jeunes
Femmes, dans le manuscrit de Galland (XiVe–XVe siècles) ........... 113
Bruno Halflants
Judeo-Arabic as a Mixed Language ........................................................... 125
Benjamin Hary
The Story of Zayd and Kaḥlāʾ—A Folk Story in a Judaeo-Arabic
Manuscript ................................................................................................... 145
Rachel Hasson Kenat
vi contents
Towards an inventory of Middle and Mixed Arabic Features:
The inscriptions of Deir Mar Musa (Syria) as a Case Study ......... 157
Johannes den Heijer
Qui est arabophone? Les variétés de l’arabe dans la définition
d’une compétence native ........................................................................ 175
Amr Helmy Ibrahim
Perspectives ecdotiques pour textes en moyen arabe :
L’exemple des traités théologiques de Sulaymān al-Ġazzī ........... 187
Paolo La Spisa
normes orthographiques en moyen arabe : Sur la notation du
vocalisme bref ............................................................................................. 209
Jérôme Lentin
Playing the Same Game? notes on Comparing Spoken
Contemporary Mixed Arabic and (Pre)Modern Written
Middle Arabic ............................................................................................. 235
Gunvor Mejdell
Middle Arabic in Moshe Darʿī’s Judaeo-Arabic Poems ....................... 247
Arie Schippers
Written Judeo-Arabic: Colloquial versus Middle Arabic .................... 265
Yosef Tobi
Yefet ben ʿEli’s Commentary on the book of Zechariah .................... 279
Kees de Vreugd
Damascus Arabic According to the Compendio of
Lucas Caballero (1709) ................................................................................ 295
Otto Zwartjes and Manfred Woidich
List of Contributors ........................................................................................ 335
index ................................................................................................................... 341
LiST OF iLLUSTRATiOnS
illustrations from Lucas Caballero & Juan de la Encarnación, Compendio
de los Rudimentos y Gramatica Araba en que se da suficiente notizia de la
lengua Vernacula o Vulgar y algunas Reglas de la literal Iustamente, Sträng-
näs, Sweden, 1709-1710. All illustrations are published with the kind per-
mission of the Roggebiblioteket in Sweden.
Front page of the Strängnäs manuscript of Caballero ........................ 304
Table with declensions (f. 14r) .................................................................... 305
The cardinal numbers (f. 19r) ...................................................................... 306
ُُْ
ل�ْ�َخ��َخ buxl ~ buxul ‘avaricia’ [avarice] (f. 1r) ............................................... 309
��خ�س�� saxl ~ saxal ‘cabritillo’ [(billy-) kid] (f. 3r) ...................................... 309
ل
ّخ َُ
َه�َُوخ ْwazze ~ wuzze ‘ganso’ [goose] (f. 4r) ................................................ 309
خر�خ�خوا����س�س������ْ��َ�� ssbnāōnbaixr,, ssiibnāōnbiaxr ‘e‘psipñionnaecsa’’ [[pspinine ancuht]] ((ff. . 85vr)) ...................................................................... 331199
�َ خْخَ
ه�َ�خخ�يَ���خخ�َْ zbībe, zibībe ‘pasa’ [raisin] (f. 6v) ....................................................... 319
ه��َ��َي�ُ��سَ�� ْsfīne, sifīne ‘nave’ [ship] (f. 10r) ......................................................... 319
حوط�ْ�صخ�َْ ṣṭūḥ, ṣiṭūḥ ‘terrazo, techo’ [terraces, roofs] (f. 36v) ................. 319
ل��َخ ر�َ�سَ�� sfirǧil, sifirǧil ‘membrillo’ [quince] (f. 5r) ................................... 319
ْ ْ
ح�ا��خ���ا ، ح�َ ا��خس��ا ilbāriḥ ~ imbāriḥ ‘aier tarde’ [yesterday evening]
(f. 37v) ............................................................................................................ 322
َ
َ ُ
هر��ك�خ bukara ‘mañana’ [tomorrow] (f. 37v) ................................................ 323
bi-prefix (f. 42r.) ............................................................................................... 327
ACKnOWLEDGEMEnTS
The articles contained in this volume are based on papers read at the Sec-
ond Conference of the Association internationale pour l’étude du moyen
arabe et des variétés mixtes de l’arabe (AiMA), which was held at the Uni-
versity of Amsterdam in 2007. Thanks are due to all the authors of papers
presented at the Conference.
We thank the members of the Organising Committee ( Johannes den
Heijer, Ronald Kon, Caroline Roset, Resianne Smidt van Gelder-Fontaine,
Harry Stroomer, Manfred Woidich, Otto Zwartjes, and irene Zwiep) for
the time and effort dedicated to make AiMA 2 a successful event. A spe-
cial word of thanks is due to Caroline Roset. During AiMA 2 and its pre-
paratory stage, she played a crucial role in organising all the practical
aspects of the conference.
We wish to thank all the financing instances: the institute of Culture
and History, the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication,
the Department of Language and Literature (University of Amsterdam),
the Stichting Oosters instituut (‘Foundation The Oriental institute’) in
Leiden, and the Royal netherlands Academy (KnAW) in Amsterdam, for
their sponsorship.
We are indebted to the Scientific Committee and Presidency of AiMA
(Joshua blau, Jacques Grand’Henry, Jérôme Lentin, Federico Corriente,
Madiha Doss, Simon Hopkins, Gunvor Mejdell, and Kees Versteegh), who
honoured the Amsterdam Conference with their moral support. We are
indebted to Manfred Woidich for his advice and assistance during the
compilation of this volume, and to Johannes den Heijer for so kindly writ-
ing the introduction to this book. Ronald Kon assisted us in the earlier
stages of the preparations of this volume, for which we are very grateful.
Our special thanks go to the series editor, Kees Versteegh, and to the
editors of brill Academic Publishers, Liesbeth Kanis, Franca de Kort, and
Jasmin Lange, who assisted us with limitless kindness and patience.
The editors
Amsterdam, november 2011
