The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Publications by Georg Krotkoff xi
6. Abbreviations xxii
7. Georg Krotkoff as Scholar and Teacher 1
8. Part 1 Humanism, Culture, and Literature
9. Inquiry into the Origins of Humanism 15
10. Humanism and the Language Sciences in Medieval Islam 27
11. Cosmic Numbers: The Symbolic Design of Ni z a m ÿ ’s Haft Paykar 39
12. Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse 51
13. From Revolt to Resignation: The Life of Shaykh Mḥsin Sharāra 61
14. Sūra as Guidance and Exhortation: The Composition of Sūrat al-Nisā 71
15. The Hijāb: How a Curtain Became an Institution and a Cultural Symbol 87
16. The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel and Short Story in Arabic 105
17. An Arabic Poem in an Israeli Controversy: Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s “Passing Words” 119
18. Bi-l'Arabī al-faṣīḥ: An Egyptian Play Looks at Contemporary Arab Society 129
19. Part 2 Arabic
20. Learning Arabic: A Lifetime Commitment 145
21. The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism 155
22. Al-Khalīl’s Legacy 165
23. The Etymology of Muqarnas : Some Observations 175
24. Egyptian Arabic and Dialect Contact in Historical Perspective 185
25. On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic 199
26. Ein arabischer Text aus Constantine (Algerien) 225
27. Part 3 Aramaic
28. Zur griechischen Neben ü berlieferung im Syrischen 237
29. Syriac Loanwords in Classical Armenian 247
30. The Modern Chaldean Pronunciation of Classical Syriac 253
31. Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 267
32. Zum neuaram ä ischen Dialekt von Hassane (Provinz ´ı rnak) 275
33. A Preliminary List of Aramaic Loanwords in Kurdish 283
34. The Story of Balaam and His She-Ass in Four Neo-Aramaic Dialects: A Comparative Study of the Translations 301
35. A Comparative Study of Pet Names in English and Assyrian 319
36. The Trickle Down Approach 337
37. Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen 345
38. Akkadian lišan-u-m , Arabic lišan-u-n : Which Is the Older Form? 355
39. Part 5 Ancient Egyptian, Ottoman Turkish, and Other Linguistic Matters
40. You Gotta Have Heart 363
41. The Protean Arabic Abjad 369
42. A Matter of Inconsistency: Variation of Arabic Loanwords in English 385
43. The Language and Prose Style of Bostān’s Süleymānnāme 401
44. Language and Script in Ancient Egypt 419
45. Contributors 429
46. Index of Authors 433