The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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The Philological Endeavours of the Early Arabic Linguists: Theological Implications of the tawqīf-iṣṭilāḥ Antithesis and the majāz Controversy (Part II) / جهود اللغويين العرب المبكرة: الٲبعاد الدينية لنظريتي التوقيف والاصطلاح في نشٲة اللغة والخلاف حول المجاز [القسم الثاني] [PDF]
, 1999 The concluding part of the article pursues the theoretical arguments which relate to the tawqīf-işṭilāḥ debate on the origin of language and the intricate link with the concept of majāz.
Shah, Mustafa
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Originality of thought and method in West African Islamic teaching: a Fulfulde example [PDF]
, 1980 African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Brenner, Louis
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Polygynous Muslim marriages in South Africa: their potential impact on the incidence of HIV/AIDS [PDF]
, 2009 Introduction: Polygyny is generally deemed to be incompatible with Western norms of monogamy and equality, and, therefore, discriminatory to women. This article does not debate the merits and demerits of this view, but proceeds from the premise that ...
Moosa, Najma
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SuhufThis research analyses the development of living Qur'an studies between 2005 and 2025 using the keywords “Living Qur’an”, “Living Al-Qur’an”, "Living Al-Quran", and “Living Al-Quran,” with two keywords containing no apostrophe. Data scraping and analysis
Asyiq Billah Ali +3 more
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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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Inspiration and Inerrancy in Scripture [PDF]
, 2008 Inspiration in Qur\u27anic revelation is quite different from the Catholic understanding. The incarnational principle through which the human faculties of the inspired writer are active in the very mode of receptivity seems to be understood differently ...
Del Colle, Ralph
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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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IMPLICIT COMPARISONS: VISUALITY AND THE INTERLINEAR MANUSCRIPT PAGE
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A central question for European philology, informed by various agendas and ideologies, concerned comparison and the positing of hierarchies among languages. With this “traditional” question of philology in mind, but hoping to think in less traditional ways, this article asks how comparative understandings of Arabic and local languages of the ...
RONIT RICCI
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