In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture: Studies Presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday

596 Pages·2011·18.473 MB·

by  Bilal Orfali

In the Shadow of Arabic
The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture
Studies in
Semitic Languages and
Linguistics
Editorial board
T. Muraoka, A.D. Rubin and C.H.M. Versteegh
VOLUME 63
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Ramzi Baalbaki
In the Shadow of Arabic
The Centrality of Language
to Arabic Culture
Studies Presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the
Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday
Edited by
Bilal Orfali
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
In the shadow of Arabic the centrality of language to Arabic culture : studies presented to Ramzi
 Baalbaki on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday / edited by Bilal Orfali.
  p. cm. – (Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 63)
 "Bibliography of Ramzi Baalbaki":
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-21537-5 (hardback : alk. paper)
 1. Arabic language—Grammar—History. I. Urfah’li, Bilal. II. Ba'labakki, Ramzi. III. Title.
IV. Series.
 PJ6106.I53 2012
 492.75—dc23
2011035564
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements  ........................................................................................ xi
Preface  ................................................................................................................ xiii
Bibliography Ramzi Baalbaki  ...................................................................... xv
History of Arabic Grammar
Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of Arabic  ...... 3
 Yasir Suleiman
The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Diffferent?  ........................... 31
 Michael G. Carter
Khabar / Inshāʾ, une fois encore  ................................................................ 49
 Pierre Larcher
From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other Identifijiers  ................ 71
 Nadia Anghelescu
La coordination à un constituant du noyau en arabe  ......................... 101
 Hassan Hamzé
Mustaqīm, muḥāl, ḥasan, qabīḥ: Les critères de recevabilité dans
 le Kitāb de Sībawayhi  ............................................................................... 119
 Georgine Ayoub
An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar:
Sheikh Ismail Ganief’s Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958)  ......................... 177
 Kees Versteegh
Profiles of Grammarians
Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies  ....................................................... 197
 Monique Bernards
viii contents
Al-Zajjāj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a
 Comparative Context  ................................................................................ 221
 Wadād al-Qāḍī
Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some Poems  ................................... 249
 Geert Jan van Gelder
Linguistics
Linguistic Observations on the Theonym Allāh  .................................... 267
 Aziz Al-Azmeh
Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li-  ......................... 283
 Karin Christina Ryding
Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of Sībawayhi’s
 Dispute with the Naḥwiyyūn over Ditransitive Verbs with
 Two Object Pronouns  ............................................................................... 299
 David Wilmsen
Style, Lexicography, and Phonosymbolism
Homonymie, polysémie et critères de distinction  ............................... 325
 Ibrahim Ben Mrad
Sulamī’s Treatise on the Science of the Letters (ʿilm al-ḥurūf )  ........ 339
 Gerhard Böwering
Style formulaire et parallélisme dans le Coran  ..................................... 399
 Georges Bohas
Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular Epics  ............................................. 413
 Peter Heath
Arabic Contextualized
Ghazal and Grammar: al-Bāʿūnī’s Taḍmīn Alfijiyyat Ibn Mālik
 fī l-Ghazal  ..................................................................................................... 445
 Bilal Orfali
contents ix
The Qurʾān as a Late Antique Text  ........................................................... 495
 Angelika Neuwirth
A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic  .... 511
 Everhard Ditters
Index of Arabic Terms  ................................................................................... 553
Index of Proper Nouns  .................................................................................. 558
Notes on the Contributors  ........................................................................... 571