Arabic and its Alternatives

Arabic and its Alternatives

Religious Minorities and their Languages in the Emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950)

Murre-van den Berg, Heleen; Sanchez Summerer, Karene; Baarda, Tijmen

Brill

03/2020

320

Dura

Inglês

9789004382695

15 a 20 dias

622

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Preface

?Heleen Murre-van den Berg



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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, Vic, Ic, Is, 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 ?ad": Language and Ethnicity in the Nationalist Poetry of Fu?ad 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



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Armenian; Assyrian; Kurdish; Religiousidentityformation; Syriac; Turkish; historicalsociolinguistics; literatureandnationalism; nationalism