Middle East Language Books

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1. The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

   By James E. Montgomery, Uwe Vagelpohl, Gregor Schoeler

   Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59707-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian

   By Colin Turner

   Now available in paperback, A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian is a reference work unique in the history of English-Persian lexicography. It offers a considerably extended guide to modern everyday Persian vocabulary, arranged by theme. With approximately 25,000 Persian headwords in over...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-56780-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic

   By Jeffrey Heath

   This is a comprehensive study of the Jewish and Muslim dialect networks of Morocco in its traditional boundaries, covering twenty-two Muslim and some thirty Jewish dialects of Moroccan Arabic....

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-56778-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Arabic in the City: Issues in Dialect Contact and Language Variation

   Edited by Catherine Miller, Enam Al-Wer, Dominique Caubet, Janet C.E. Watson

   Filling a gap in the literature currently available on the topic, this edited collection is the first examination of the interplay between urbanization, language variation and language change in fifteen major Arab cities. The Arab world presents very different types and degrees of urbanization,...

   2007 | 978-0-415-77311-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb

   By Maher Bahloul

   Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb is a corpus-based study that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb. Approaches to verbal grammatical categories - the constituents of verbal systems - often rely on either semantic-pragmatic or syntactic analyses. This research...

   2007 | 978-0-415-77215-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Crusades

   By Nikolas Jaspert

   This German-to-English translation of a highly successful book is a clear, approachable, student-friendly introduction to the history of the Crusades. With a long chronological span, from the eleventh to the late fifteenth century, and with a wide geographical coverage of the whole of Europe...

   2006 | 978-0-415-35968-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Arabic Rhetoric: A Pragmatic Analysis

   By Hussein Abdul-Raof

   Arabic Rhetoric explores the history, disciplines, order and pragmatic functions of Arabic speech acts. It offers a new understanding of Arabic rhetoric and employs examples from modern standard Arabic as well as providing a glossary of over 448 rhetorical expressions listed in English with their...

   2006 | 978-0-415-38609-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Modern Persian: A Course-Book

   By Simin Abrahams

   Modern Persian begins with the teaching of the Persian alphabet. It aims to provide the student with the necessary skills for social interaction, as well as a basis for the study of modern literature. The course consists of seventeen units and favours teaching by communicative and...

   2005 | 978-0-7007-1327-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Ben-Gurion Against the Knesset

   By Giora Goldberg

   The power struggle between Ben-Gurion and the Knesset was not primarily concerned with who should hold the reins of power, but with the ideals that should lie behind government. Ben-Gurion did not think that the Knesset had the moral backbone required at a historic turning-point in Israeli history,...

   2004 | 978-0-7146-5556-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Arabic Grammar and Linguistics

    Edited by Yasir Suleiman

    This book explores aspects of the Arabic Grammatical Tradition and Arabic Linguistics from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. It also touches on issues of relevance to other disciplines, particularly Qur'anic exegesis and jurisprudence. The links between the fields of language and...

    1999 | 978-0-7007-1007-2 | Hardback (Routledge)