This book will consider the way Arabic has been deployed in the modern world to express different constructions of national, ethnic, religious and state identities.
This survey of current research into Arabic sociolinguistics highlights the importance of the interdisciplinary nature of the topics. In addition to Arabic linguistics themselves, it deals with a range of areas including Islamic law and aspects of cultural and political history.
The question of identity in relation to language has hardly been dealt with in the Middle East and North Africa, in spite of the centrality of... Læs mere
This compelling and timely study of Arabic culture, language, history, and nationalism by distinguished Arabic linguist Yasir Suleiman allows English-speaking audiences an inside view of key issues in understanding the Arab world.
This book sets out to deal with the concept of ta?lil by investigating the major works of those grammarians who have contributed most in theoretical terms to its development and elaboration in the Arabic Grammatical Tradition.