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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The aesthetics of metapoetics in al-Mutanabbī’s panegyric “qaṣīda” to Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh

open access: yesPhilologia Hispalensis, 2018
This article presents first, a translation into Spanish of a poem by the 10th century Arabic poet Abū Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī (better known as al-Mutanabbī).
Miguel Ángel Vázquez
doaj   +1 more source

Arabic in contact/ edited by Stefano Manfredi, CNRS, INALCO, SeDyl ; Mauro Tosco, University of Turin.

open access: yes, 2018
Selected proceedings of the conference, Arabic in Contact: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspective, held December 15-17, 2014 at the University of Naples.Includes bibliographical references and index.Arabic in contact, now and then / Stefano Manfredi ...
Manfredi Stefano, Tosco Mauro
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns and Functions of Total Reduplication in Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic:

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2019
In this paper, we investigate the form, salient patterns and core functions of word-level total reduplication in Classical Arabic (CA) and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Mohammed Modhaffer   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lara HARB, Arabic Poetics. Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2022
Pierre Larcher
doaj   +1 more source

Brevi riflessioni sull’uso della letteratura nella didattica della lingua araba

open access: yesLinguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2019
This paper aims at investigating the role of Arabic Literature in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, from the first manuals and grammars to the new tools, from the grammar-translation method to the digital storytelling approach.
Angela Daiana Langone
doaj   +1 more source

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