A dialectal Arabic language resource that promotes successful daily communication with native Moroccan speakers. Created using fresh computational linguistics ideas, it represents a new generation of Arabic language reference materials designed to help English speakers gain proficiency in colloquial Arabic.
The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author, Ma'mar ibn Rashid (96-153/714-770), was a prominent scholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning in prophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the interpretation of the Qur'an. This fascinating ......
Represents an important testimony to the earliest Muslims' memory of the lives of Muhammad and his companions, and is an indispensable text for gaining insight into the historical biography of both the Prophet and the rise of the Islamic empire.
The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d 204 H/820 AD), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This book deals with this work.
Includes a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur'an and prophetic traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required.
Known as "one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature" (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qari. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks Ibn al-Qari's ......
Remains a touchstone in the field of Arabic linguistics. This title covers the whole range of language in Arabic culture and to offer a historical linguistic survey of the Arabic language from Classical to Modern Standard Arabic.
Straddling the domains of cultural and political nationalism, this title examines the Arab past; the clash between Arab and Turkish cultural nationalism in the 19th and early 20th century; and readings of canonical treatises on the topic of Arab cultural nationalism, the major ideological trends linking language to territorial nationalism.
Analyses the stages in which children learn Arabic as a first language. This book makes comparisons with aspects of language acquisition of other languages, primarily English, and explores implications for the theory of language acquisition.
