A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic
Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proximity to the vernacular that cannot be encountered in any other surviving historical Arabic material, and thus provide unprecedented access to Arabic language history.
This rich material remains very little explored. Traditionally, scholarship on Arabic has focussed overwhelmingly on the literature of the various Golden Ages between the 8th and 13th...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers, University of Cambridge
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 27 janvier 2022
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-2967-2
Collection : Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Series | 10
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-941-6
Nombre de pages : xx-463
I. Handbook
Michiel Leezenberg
1. Vernacularisation in the Ottoman Empire: is arabic the exception that proves the rule?Necmettin Kızılkaya
2. From means to goal: auxiliary disciplines in the ottoman madrasa curriculumEfe Khayyat
6. Bastards and ArabsII. Reader
Dotan Arad et Esther-Miriam Wagner
1. Bodl. ms. Heb. C. 72/18: a letter by Isaac Bayt ʿAṭṭān to Moses b. Judah (1480s)Benjamin Hary
2. The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish communityNaḥem Ilan
4. Aharon Garish, Metsaḥ AharonHumphrey Taman Davies
5. Kitāb Hazz al-quḥūf (1600s)Boris Liebrenz et Kristina Richardson
6. A weaver’s notebook from Aleppo (10th/16th century)Ghayde Ghraowi
13. Qahwa ‘coffee’ (16th–17th centuries)Esther-Miriam Wagner et Mohamed Ahmed
16. A clerical letter by Rafael al-Ṭūḵī from the Prize papers collections (1758)Esther-Miriam Wagner et Mohamed Ahmed
17. A Christian mercantile letter from the Prize papers collections (1759)Jérôme Lentin
19. Syria 1: Chronicle of Ibn Al-Ṣiddīq (1768)Ahmed Ech-Charfi
20. A letter transmitted by ambassador Hajj Mahdī Bargash from sultan Muḥammad bin ʿAbdallah to sultan Abdul Ḥamīd (1789 ce)Matthew Dudley
22. A Judaeo-Arabic letter from the Prize papers collection, HCA 32/1208/126.2 (1796)Magdalen Connolly
24. A 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic folk narrativeJérôme Lentin
25. Libya 1: Ḥasan Al-Faqīh Ḥasan’s Chronicle Al-Yawmiyyāt Al-Lībiyya (early 19th century)Jérôme Lentin
26. Libya 2: letter from Ġūma Al-Maḥmūdī (1795–1858) to ʿAzmī Bēk, Daftardār of the ʾIyāla (province) of Tripoli (undated)Geoffrey Khan et Esther-Miriam Wagner
27. T-s ns 99.38 (1809)Esther-Miriam Wagner et Mohamed Ahmed
28. Rylands Genizah collection a 803 (1825)George Kiraz
32. A Disgruntled bishop: a Garshūnī letter from bishop Dinḥā of Midyat to patriarch Peter IIIAlex Bellem et G. Rex Smith
33. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Jarādī: Sīrat al-Ḵawāja al-ʾAkram al-Marḥūm Harmān al-ʾAlmānīEsther-Miriam Wagner
34. Ora ve-Simḥa (1917)Tania María García-Arévalo
36. An anecdote about Juḥā (1920s)Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proximity to the vernacular that cannot be encountered in any other surviving historical Arabic material, and thus provide unprecedented access to Arabic language history.
This rich material remains very little explored. Traditionally, scholarship on Arabic has focussed overwhelmingly on the literature of the various Golden Ages between the 8th and 13th centuries, whereas texts from the 15th century onwards have often been viewed as corrupted and not worthy of study. The lack of interest in Ottoman Arabic culture and literacy left these sources almost completely neglected in university courses.
This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way. Split into a Handbook and a Reader section, the book provides a historical introduction to Ottoman literacy, translation studies, vernacularisation processes, language policy and linguistic pluralism. The second part contains excerpts from more than forty sources, edited and translated by a diverse network of scholars.
The material presented includes a large number of yet unedited texts, such as Christian Arabic letters from the Prize Paper collections, mercantile correspondence and notebooks found in the Library of Gotha, and Garshuni texts from archives of Syriac patriarchs.
Senior Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute while continuing her work in the Genizah Research Unit on a part-time basis.

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