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<span>1)</span><br><span>Date: </span><span>03 Feb 2012</span><br><span>From:reposted from LINGUIST</span><br><span>Subject:</span>New Book In the Shadow of Arabic<br><br><div>Title: In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic</div>

<div>Culture</div><div>Subtitle: Studies Presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the Occasion of His Sixtieth</div><div>Birthday</div><div>Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics</div><div>Publication Year: 2011</div>

<div>Publisher: Brill</div><div>          <a href="http://www.brill.nl" target="_blank">http://www.brill.nl</a></div><div><br></div><div>Book URL: <a href="http://www.brill.nl/shadow-arabic-centrality-language-arabic-culture" target="_blank">http://www.brill.nl/shadow-arabic-centrality-language-arabic-culture</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>Editor: Bilal Orfali</div><div>Hardback: ISBN:  9789004215375 Pages: 600 Price: Europe EURO 165</div><div>Hardback: ISBN:  9789004215375 Pages: 600 Price: U.S. $ 227</div><div><br></div><div>Abstract:</div>

<div>The collection of articles in this volume is dedicated to Ramzi Baalbaki of the</div><div>American University of Beirut on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The</div><div>volume reflects the central themes of Ramzi Baalbaki's scholarly work:</div>

<div>history of Arabic grammar, Arabic lexicography, Arabic linguistics,</div><div>comparative Semitics, Arabic epigraphy, and textual editing of classical</div><div>texts. It provides intellectual, literary, and social historians, as well as</div>

<div>Arabists, philologists, and linguists with an interesting glimpse into the early</div><div>medieval and modern traditions related to the Arabic language, its grammar,</div><div>historical development, and demonstrates its centrality to other fields of</div>

<div>study such as Qur'ānic studies, adab, folk literature, sufism, and poetry.</div><div>Contributors include: Nadia Anghelescu, Georgine Ayoub, Aziz Azmeh,</div><div>Monique Bernards, Georges Bohas, Gerhard Böwering, Michael Carter,</div>

<div>Everhard Ditters, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hassan Hamzé, Peter Heath, Pierre</div><div>Larcher, Ibrahim Ben Mrad, Bilal Orfali, Wadād al-Qāḍī, Angelika Neuwirth,</div><div>Karin Ryding, Yasir Suleiman, Kees Versteegh, and David Wilmsen</div>

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