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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Arabic-L: Mon 07 Apr 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">07 Apr 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"Brustad, Kristen" <<a href="mailto:brustad@austin.utexas.edu" target="_blank">brustad@austin.utexas.edu</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for papers:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Zentrum für Islamische Studien (Center for Islamic Studies) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is pleased to announce the congress Horizonte der islamischen Theologie (Horizons of Islamic Theology) to be held from Monday 1 to Friday 5 September 2014 at the University of Frankfurt.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The study of Near and Middle East past and present as well as the study of the philologia sacra demands an ever-growing expert knowledge of the methods and theories of history, sociology and literature. In most academic institutions, however, the study of these fields is considered separate disciplines. As a consequence, Arabists and scholars of Islamic studies will normally study Classical Arabic to a certain level but rarely acquaint themselves with other Semitic languages, despite their importance with regard to the Biblical background of the Koran as well as the linguistic and cultural setting of the Koran and Early Islam.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The section “Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies”, organized by Daniel Birnstiel (Frankfurt) and Na’ama Pat-El (University of Texas, Austin), attempts to highlight the benefits of a linguistic and comparative engagement of Arabic with other regional languages and societies for an improved understanding of Early Islam and its literary heritage.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Already in 1923 in the introduction to his Arabische Syntax, Herrmann Reckendorf identified the investigation of Arabic Syntax from a historical perspective as one of the most pressing tasks of Arabic studies. Nevertheless, only a small number of corpus-based studies attempting to solve grammatical questions and difficulties have been published to date. This panel is dedicated to the presentation of new research in the field of Arabic syntax.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We invite submissions to two panels “New Insights in Historical Arabic Syntax” and “Arabic and Semitic: How archaic is the fuṣḥā?”. Please submit abstracts no longer than 300 words to Dr. Daniel Birnstiel (</span><a href="mailto:birnstiel@em.uni-frankfurt.de" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">birnstiel@em.uni-frankfurt.de</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:birnstiel@em.uni-frankfurt.de" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">birnstiel@em.uni-frankfurt.de</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>) and Dr. Na’ama Pat-El (</span><a href="mailto:npatel@austin.utexas.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">npatel@austin.utexas.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">mailto:</span><a href="mailto:npatel@austin.utexas.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">npatel@austin.utexas.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>), accompanied by a short bio, by June 30 2014.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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