In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture

Bilal Orfali, Ph.D. (2009), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of several articles and books on classical Arabic literature and Islamic mysticism.

"[L]e volume revêt un grand intérêt pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la langue arabe et, plus particulièrement, aux questions linguistiques qu’elle soulève, ainsi qu’à sa longue et riche tradition grammaticale. La qualité générale des articles, ainsi que l’érudition des contributeurs, représentent le plus bel hommage à une figure incontournable dans le domaine, un des pionniers des études sur l’histoire de la grammaire arabe." – Francesco Binaghi, in: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée"All things considered, the editor has been successful in putting together a volume, which represents the multifaceted nature of research on the history of Arabic grammar and Arabic lexicography and encompasses a wide range of topics as well as of different theoretical perspectives on these subjects. The papers include linguistics and socio-historical analyses, detailed case studies describing the development of different grammatical traditions as well as discussions about formal aspects of both classical and modern standard Arabic grammar. Despite this great heterogeneity, the volume constitutes a coherent collection of studies demonstrating the strength of the relationship interrelating language, culture and religion in the arabophone world." – Stefano Manfredi, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 103 (2013): 451-453

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceBibliography Ramzi BaalbakiHistory of Arabic Grammar1. Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of ArabicYasir Suleiman2. The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Diffferent?Michael G. Carter3. Khabar / Inshāʾ, une fois encorePierre Larcher4. From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other IdentifijiersNadia Anghelescu5. La coordination à un constituant du noyau en arabeHassan Hamzé6. Mustaqīm, muḥāl, ḥasan, qabīḥ: Les critères de recevabilité dans le Kitāb de SībawayhiGeorgine Ayoub7. An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganief’s Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958)Kees VersteeghProfiles of Grammarians8. Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic StudiesMonique Bernards9. Al-Zajjāj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative ContextWadād al-Qāḍī10. Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some PoemsGeert Jan van GelderLinguistics11. Linguistic Observations on the Theonym AllāhAziz Al-Azmeh12. Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li-Karin Christina Ryding13. Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of Sībawayhi’s Dispute with the Naḥwiyyūn over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object PronounsDavid WilmsenStyle, Lexicography, and Phonosymbolism14. Homonymie, polysémie et critères de distinctionIbrahim Ben Mrad15. Sulamī’s Treatise on the Science of the Letters (ʿilm al-ḥurūf)Gerhard Böwering16. Style formulaire et parallélisme dans le CoranGeorges Bohas17. Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular EpicsPeter HeathArabic Contextualized18. Ghazal and Grammar: al-Bāʿūnī’s Taḍmīn Alfijiyyat Ibn Mālik fī l-GhazalBilal Orfali19. The Qurʾān as a Late Antique TextAngelika Neuwirth20. A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard ArabicEverhard DittersIndex of Arabic TermsIndex of Proper NounsNotes on the Contributors