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A handbook and reader of Ottoman Arabic

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This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way.

Title A handbook and reader of Ottoman Arabic / edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner.
Related place Cambridge (England)-place of publication
Contributors Wagner, Esther-Miriam (editor)
Publisher Cambridge : University of Cambridge
Open Book Publishers
Creation Date [2021]
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
English and Arabic.
Content Introduction / Esther-Miriam Wagner -- I. HANDBOOK. 1. Vernacularisation in the Ottoman Empire: Is Arabic the Exception that Proves the Rule? / Michiel Leezenberg
2. From Means to Goal: Auxiliary Disciplines in the Ottoman Madrasa Curriculum / Necmettin Kızılkaya
3. On the Order of the Sciences for He Who Wants to Learn Them / Guy Burak
4. Rumi Authors, the Arabic Historiographical Tradition, and the Ottoman Dawla/Devlet / Guy Burak
5. Arabic Grammar Books in Ottoman Istanbul: The South Asian Connection / Christopher D. Bahl
6. Bastards and Arabs / E. Khayyat -- II. READER. 1. Bodl. Ms. Heb. C. 72/18: A Letter by Isaac Bayt ʻAṭṭān to Moses B. Judah (1480s) / Dotan Arad and Esther-Miriam Wagner
2. The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community / Benjamin Hary
3. Appointment Deed of a Cantor in the Karaite Community, Cairo (1575) / Dotan Arad
4. Aharon Garish, Metsaḥ Aharon / Naḥem Ilan
5. Kitāb Hazz al-Quḥūf (1600s) / Humphrey Taman Davies
6. A Weaver's Notebook from Aleppo (10th/16th century) / Boris Liebrenz and Kristina Richardson
7. Selections from Arabic Garshūnī Manuscripts in the British Library / Michael Erdman
8. Excerpt from Yūsuf al-Maġribī's Dafʻ al-iṣr ʻan kalām ahl Miṣr (1606) / Liesbeth Zack
9. Lebanon: Chronicle of al-Ṣafadī (early 17th century [?]) / Jérôme Lentin
10. A Jew's Testimony Regarding a Statement Made in His Presence by a Muslim, Testified on Monday 20th Kislev 5418 (1657) / Werner Diem
11. A Jew's Testimony Regarding a Statement Made in His Presence by a Muslim (1681) / Werner Diem
12. A Basra Passover Haggadah with Judaeo-Arabic Translation (ca. 1700) / Omer Shafran
13. Qahwa 'Coffee' (16th-17th centuries) / Ghayde Ghraowi
14. Egypt: Damurdāšī's Chronicle of Egypt (first half of 18th century) / Jérôme Lentin
15. Matenadaran Collection MS No.1751: A Medical Work (1726) / Ani Avetisyan
16. A Clerical Letter by Rafael al-Ṭūḵī from the Prize Papers Collections (1758) / Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed
17. A Christian Mercantile Letter from the Prize Papers Collections (1759) / Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed
18. Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb, Riḥlat al-Shammās Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb ilā baldat Istanbūl (1764/65) / Feras Krimsti
19. Syria 1: Chronicle of Ibn al-Ṣiddīq (1768) / Jérôme Lentin
20. A Letter Transmitted by Ambassador Hajj Mahdī Bargash from Sultan Muḥammad Bin ʻAbdallah to Sultan Abdul Ḥamīd (1789 CE) / Ahmed Ech-Charfi
21. Arab Merchant Letters from the Gotha Collection of Arabic Manuscripts / Boris Liebrenz
22. A Judaeo-Arabic Letter from the Prize Papers Collection, HCA 32/1208/126.2 (1796) / Matthew Dudley
23. The Cairo-Ramla Manuscripts, or the Ramle KAR, 13 (1800s) / Olav Ørum
24. A 19th-Century Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narrative / Magdalen M. Connolly
25. Libya 1: Ḥasan al-Faqīh Ḥasan's Chronicle Al-Yawmiyyāt al-Lībiyya (early 19th century) Download Jérôme Lentin
26. Libya 2: Letter from Ġūma al-Maḥmūdī (1795-1858) to ʻAzmī Bēk, Daftardār of the ʼIyāla (Province) of Tripoli (undated) Download Jérôme Lentin 27. T-S NS 99.38 (1809) / Geoffrey Khan and Esther-Miriam Wagner
28. Rylands Genizah Collection A 803 (1825) / Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed
29. Syria 2: Chronicle of Muḥammad Saʻīd al-ʼUsṭuwānī (1840-1861) / Jérôme Lentin
30. Arabia: A Letter from Abdallah Ḥiṣānī to ʻAbdallah Bāšā (1855) / Jérôme Lentin
31. Excerpts from Yaʻqūb Ṣanūʻ's Abū Naḍḍāra Zarʼa and ʻAbd Allāh al-Nadīm's al-Ustāḏ / Liesbeth Zack
32. A Disgruntled Bishop: A Garshūnī Letter from Bishop Dinḥā of Midyat to Patriarch Peter III / George Kiraz
33. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Jarādī: Sīrat al-Ḵawāja al-ʼAkram al-Marḥūm Harmān al-ʼAlmānī Download Alex Bellem and G. Rex Smith
34. Ora ve-Simḥa (1917) / Esther-Miriam Wagner
35. A 'Mandæo-Arabic' Letter from Lady Drower's Correspondence / Charles Häberl
36. An Anecdote about Juḥā (1920s) / Tania María García-Arévalo -- References.
Series Semitic languages and cultures
9 2632-6914
Extent 1 online resource (490 pages).
Language Arabic
English
National Library system number 997012493672505171

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