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Some observations on the poetical language of love songs in in the dialect of the Jbala (Northen Morocco) [PDF]
, 2006 Este articulo trata sobre canciones populares de tematica amorosa en dialecto arabe yebali. Para ello, nos serviremos de material adicional extraido de algunos dialectos arabes.
Gintsburg, Sarali
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Researching Vulnerability in Multilingual Contexts: Trauma, Ethics, and Pedagogy
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the complex intersections of trauma, vulnerability, multilingualism, and ethics in refugee settings. Drawing on the author's personal experiences as a refugee academic and years of research in refugee English language education and noneducation contexts, it employs an autoethnographic approach to critically examine ...
Mohammed Ateek
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Excavating a linguistic category : on the properties of Ism al-Fi‘l and the limits of Kalām al-‘Arab [PDF]
, 2017 Examining the occurrence of ism fi‘l murtajal (an obscure lexical class whose words syntactically are verbs, while morphologically resemble irregular nouns) in three early, founding works of Arabic grammar and lexicology, affords analysis of the words ...
Butts, Kevin Austin
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian 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
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The Thematic and Rhetorical Transformation of ‘Aṣabiyya in Early Islamic Poetry
ReligionsClassical Arabic poetry played a powerful social role in Arab society, particularly during the Jāhiliyya (pre-Islamic) period, due to its high level of eloquence (faṣāḥa) and balāgha.
Ramazan Aslan, Ismail Araz
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Ibn ‘Athiyyah wa Tarjîh fi al-Muḥarrar al-Wajîz
Studia Quranika: Jurnal Studi Quran, 2017 Ibnu Athiyah wrote in his tafsir’s book with very simple language and it’s detailed study and consistency in explaining different styles when explaining.
Rochmad Abdurrasyid
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An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept [PDF]
, 2017 This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical
Madhumita Lahiri
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian 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
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