Arabic and its alternatives : religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950) /

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"Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War. This volume takes its starting point in the non-Arabic and non-Muslim communities, tracing their linguistic and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Murre-van den Berg, H. L. (Hendrika Lena), 1964- (Ilustrador), Sanchez-Summerer, Karene (Editor ), Baarda, Tijmen C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Colección:Christians and Jews in Muslim societies ; volume 5.
Temas:
Linguistic minorities > Middle East > History.
Religious minorities > Middle East > History.
Minorities > Middle East > History.
Multilingualism > Middle East > History.
Languages in contact > Middle East > History.
Language and culture > Middle East > History.
HISTORY / Asia / General
Language and culture
Language and languages
Languages in contact
Linguistic minorities
Minorities
Multilingualism
Religious minorities
Middle East > Languages.
Moyen-Orient > Langues.
Middle East
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Heleen Murre-van den Berg
  • Note on Transcription
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1. Arabic and Its Alternatives: Language and Religion in the Ottoman Empire and Its Successor States / Heleen Murre-van den Berg
  • 2. Vernacularization as Governmentalization: the Development of Kurdish in Mandate Iraq / Michiel Leezenberg
  • 3. "Yan, Of, Ef, Viç, İç, İs, Dis, Pulos ...": the Surname Reform, the "Non-Muslims," and the Politics of Uncertainty in Post-genocidal Turkey / Emmanuel Szurek
  • 4. "Young Phoenicians" and the Quest for a Lebanese Language: between Lebanonism, Phoenicianism, and Arabism / Franck Salameh
  • 5. "Those Who Pronounce the Ḍād": Language and Ethnicity in the Nationalist Poetry of Fuʼad al-Khatib (1880-1957) / Peter Wien
  • 6. Arabic and the Syriac Christians in Iraq: Three Levels of Loyalty to the Arabist Project (1920-1950) / Tijmen C. Baarda
  • 7. Awakening, or Watchfulness: Naum Faiq and Syriac Language Poetry at the Fall of the Ottoman Empire / Robert Isaf
  • 8. Global Jewish Philanthropy and Linguistic Pragmatism in Baghdad / Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah
  • 9. Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of Arabic in Mandate Palestine / Liora R. Halperin
  • 10. United by Faith, Divided by Language: the Orthodox in Jerusalem / Merav Mack
  • 11. Arabic vs. Greek: the Linguistic Aspect of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church Controversy in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate / Konstantinos Papastathis
  • 12. Between Local Power and Global Politics: Playing with Languages in the Franciscan Printing Press of Jerusalem / Leyla Dakhli
  • 13. Epilogue / Cyrus Schayegh
  • Index.

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