This title shows how the Arabic language is involved in ideological and cultural debates about conflict. The pre-modern period saw a background of inter-ethnic strife among Arabs and non-Arabs, mainly Persians. Starting from the symbolic and cognitive roles of language, Yasir Suleiman shows how discussions about the inimitability and (un)translatability of the Qur'an in this period were, at some deep level, concerned with issues of ethnic election. In this respect, theology and ethnicity emerge...
The Arabic Club Readers: Yellow Band: The Rabbit's Hat (The Arabic Club Readers)
by Rabab Hamiduddin, Amal Ali, Ilham Salimane, and Maha Sharba
The Arabic Club Readers are series of banded, colourful and fun books for young learners of Arabic, designed to nurture confidence and motivation.
The Arabic Club Readers: Pink A Band: I have toys (The Arabic Club Readers)
by Rabab Hamiduddin, Amal Ali, Ilham Salimane, and Maha Sharba
The Arabic Club Readers are series of banded, colourful and fun books for young learners of Arabic, designed to nurture confidence and motivation.
General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 9/1 (Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, #2)
Essays by: Astour, Donbaz, Dosch, Foster, Friedman, Grosz, Khacikyan, Maidman, Morrison, Paradise, Scafa, Stein, Wegner, Wilhelm. Includes publication of significant new texts.
Building High (Collins Big Cat) (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
by Maggie Freeman
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level A non-chronological report that describes scaffolding: what it is made from, how it has developed around the world from its earliest origins to the present day, and what it is used for. Maggie Freeman also meets a young scaffolder to discuss what the job entails. Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.Text type – A non-chronological report.The book in...
The Arabic Club Readers: Blue Band: Majid the Astronaut (The Arabic Club Readers)
by Rabab Hamiduddin, Amal Ali, Ilham Salimane, and Maha Sharba
The Arabic Club Readers are series of banded, colourful and fun books for young learners of Arabic, designed to nurture confidence and motivation.
The Arabic Club Readers: Blue Band: Arabic Food (The Arabic Club Readers)
by Rabab Hamiduddin, Amal Ali, Ilham Salimane, and Maha Sharba
The Arabic Club Readers are series of banded, colourful and fun books for young learners of Arabic, designed to nurture confidence and motivation.
The Boy who Cried Wolf (Collins Big Cat) (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
by Saffy Jenkins
A shepherd boy decides to play a trick on the people in his village by telling them that there is a wolf nearby. But will the villagers believe him when a wolf really does turn up? This witty retelling of the traditional story was written by Saffy Jenkins. A shepherd boy decides to play a trick on the people in his village by telling them that there is a wolf nearby. But will the villagers believe him when a wolf really does turn up? This witty retelling of the traditional story was wr...
The Arabic Club Readers: Red Band B: Where are you from? (The Arabic Club Readers)
by Rabab Hamiduddin, Amal Ali, Ilham Salimane, and Maha Sharba
The Arabic Club Readers are series of banded, colourful and fun books for young learners of Arabic, designed to nurture confidence and motivation.
A resource for young learners, this series of bilingual visual dictionaries comes in a CD-ROM format to help children add to their vocabulary. Useful, everyday words are grouped into subjects so that children can focus on one set of related words at a time, while games such as word searches, jumbles, and matches help make learning fun. By clicking on a picture, users can hear the word pronounced in two languages, making this an ideal learning tool for both individual use and classroom settings.
Sound and Sense in Classical Arabic Poetry (Arabische Studien, #10)
by Geert Jan van Gelder
After centuries of occupation, the Hyksos leader in northern Egypt tells Pharaoh in the south that the roaring, sacred hippopotami at Thebes are keeping him awake at night and demands they be killed, galvanizing Egypt into an armed struggle to drive the barbarians from its sacred soil.
Weather Omens of Enūma Anu Enlil (Cuneiform Monographs)
by Erlend Gehlken
Thinking Arabic Translation (Thinking Translation)
by James Dickins, Sandor Hervey, and Ian Higgins
Thinking Arabic Translation is an indispensable book for linguists who want to develop their Arabic-to-English translation skills. Clear explanations, discussions, examples and exercises enable students to acquire the skills necessary for tackling a broad range of translation problems. The book has a practical orientation, addressing key issues for translators, such as cultural differences, genre, and revision and editing. It is a book on translation method, drawing on a range of notions from l...
Middle and Mixed Arabic over Time and across Written and Oral Genres: From Legal Documents to Television and Internet through Literature. Moyen arabe et arabe mixte a travers le temps et les genres ecrits et oraux: des documents legaux a la television et a internet en passant par la litterature (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, Volume 73)
The Complexities of Learning Arabic in the 21st Century
by Genevieve A Schmitt
The Complexities of Learning Arabic in the 21st Century examines how of the four levels of difficulty and hundreds of languages spoken worldwide, Arabic is considered a category 4, which means it is among the most difficult languages to learn. While Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha) is most frequently taught, it is the native language of no country or people; however, the many regional dialects (Amiyya), often dismissed by educators, make up the living language of Arabic. Due to its linguistic comp...
Pharaoh Khufu is battling the Fates. At stake is the inheritance of Egypt's throne, the proud but tender heart of Khufu's beautiful daughter Princess Merensankh and Khufu's legacy as a sage, not savage ruler.
The Verbal System of the Aramaic of Daniel (Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, #8)
by Tarsee Li
This book explains the verbal system of the Aramaic of Daniel in the context of current research on grammaticalization, which, though first mentioned by Meillet in 1912, did not flourish until the beginning of the 1980's, and has only more recently been applied to the study of Ancient Near Eastern languages. Although various aspects of the Aramaic of Daniel have been subject of numerous studies, including a few exhaustive studies on the verbal system in the last century, it remains among the mos...
Emirati Arabic (Routledge Comprehensive Grammars)
by Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung, Dimitrios Ntelitheos, and Meera Al Kaabi
Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Each grammatical point is illustrated with numerous examples drawn from native Emirati Arabic speakers and is thoroughly discussed providing both accessible and linguistically inform...