Table des matières

Introduction

• 1.0. Koineisation of Arabic in Ottoman Arabic
• 2.0. Shared Trends and Divergences of Koineisation across Confessional Boundaries
• 3.0. Notes
• 4.0. Acknowledgments

I. Handbook

Michiel Leezenberg

1. Vernacularisation in the Ottoman Empire: is arabic the exception that proves the rule?

• 1.0. Introduction to the Ottoman Cosmopolitan
• 2.0. Early Modern Ottoman Vernacularisation
• 3.0. Attempts at Explanation: The Role of Vernacular Philologies
• 4.0. A Sonderweg for Arabic?

Necmettin Kızılkaya

2. From means to goal: auxiliary disciplines in the ottoman madrasa curriculum

• 1.0. Introduction
• 2.0. Auxiliary Disciplines in the Madrasa Curriculum
• 2.1. Morphology (Ṣarf)
• 2.2. Grammar/Syntax (Naḥw)
• 2.3. Logic (Manṭiq)
• 2.4. Dialectic (Ādāb al-baḥth wa-l-munāẓara)
• 2.5. Philosophy of Language (Waḍʿ)
• 2.6. Rhetoric (Balāgha)

Guy Burak

3. On the order of the sciences for he who wants to learn them

Guy Burak

4. Rumi authors, the Arabic historiographical tradition, and the Ottoman Dawla/Devlet

• 1.0. Rumi Authors, Arabic Chronicles
• 2.0. Ottoman Devlet/Ottoman Dawla
• 3.0. Rumi Authors and Their Use of al-Dawla al-ʿUthmaniyya
• 4.0. Conclusion

D. Bahl

5. Arabic grammar books in Ottoman Istanbul: the South Asian connection

• 1.0. Writing Naḥw in 15th-century South Asia
• 2.0. Manuscript Circulation in Ottoman Istanbul
• 3.0. The Emergence of the Fihrist

Efe Khayyat

6. Bastards and Arabs

• 1.0. The Bastards
• 2.0. The Rings
• 3.0. The Arabs

II. 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)

• Transcription
• Recto
• Verso
• Arabic Transcription
• Recto
• Verso
• Translation
• Recto
• Verso
• Commentary
• Recto

Benjamin Hary

2. The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish community

• Transcription
• Adler, Folio 4b
• Adler, Folio 5a
• Arabic Transcription
• Adler, Folio 4b
• Adler, Folio 5a
• Translation
• Commentary
• Folio 4b
• Folio 5a

Dotan Arad

3. Appointment deed of a cantor in the Karaite community, Cairo (1575)

• Transcription
• MS St. Petersburg, Evr. Ar. II 1378
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Naḥem Ilan

4. Aharon Garish, Metsaḥ Aharon

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Humphrey Taman Davies

5. Kitāb Hazz al-quḥūf (1600s)

• Transcription
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25
• 3.26
• 3.27
• 3.28
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16
• 4.17
• 4.18
• 4.22
• Translation
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25
• 3.26
• 3.27
• 3.28
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16
• 4.17
• 4.18
• 4.22

Boris Liebrenz et Kristina Richardson

6. A weaver’s notebook from Aleppo (10th/16th century)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Michael Erdman

7. Selections from Arabic Garshūnī manuscripts in the British library

• British Library Or MS 4435; 12r
• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• British Library Or MS 7205, 1v
• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Liesbeth Zack

8. Excerpt from Yūsuf al-maġribī’s Dafʿ al-iṣr ʿan kalām ahl Miṣr (1606)

• Transcription
• fol. 16r
• fol. 16v
• fol. 17r
• Translation
• fol. 16r
• fol. 16v
• fol. 17r
• Commentary
• Classical Arabic: Orthography
• The hamza
• The madda
• The yāʾ and ʾalif maqṣūra
• The tāʾ marbūṭa
• Egyptian Arabic Lemmata

Jérôme Lentin

9. Lebanon: chronicle of al-ṣafadī (early 17th century [?])

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Werner Diem

10. A Jew’s testimony regarding a statement made in his presence by a Muslim, testified on Monday 20th Kislev 5418 (1657)

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation

Werner Diem

11. A Jew’s testimony regarding a statement made in his presence by a Muslim (1681)

• Arabic Transcription
• Translation

Omer Shafran

12. A Basra Passover Haggadah with Judaeo-Arabic translation (ca. 1700)

• Transcription
• Aramaic/Hebrew
• Judaeo-Arabic
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Ghayde Ghraowi

13. Qahwa ‘coffee’ (16th–17th centuries)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Jérôme Lentin

14. Egypt: Damurdāšī’s chronicle of Egypt (first half of 18th century)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Ani Avetisyan

15. Matenadaran collection ms No.1751: a medical work (1726)

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Esther-Miriam Wagner et Mohamed Ahmed

16. A clerical letter by Rafael al-Ṭūḵī from the Prize papers collections (1758)

• Transcription
• Envelope
• Recto
• Signature
• Date
• Translation
• Envelope
• Recto
• Signature
• Date
• Commentary

Esther-Miriam Wagner et Mohamed Ahmed

17. A Christian mercantile letter from the Prize papers collections (1759)

• Transcription
• Envelope
• Recto
• Signature Bottom Left
• End Right Margin (Date)
• Right Margin
• Top Margin
• Translation
• Envelope
• Recto
• Signature Bottom Left
• End Right Margin (Date)
• Right Margin
• Top Margin
• Commentary

Feras Krimsti

18. Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb, Riḥlat al-Shammās Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb ilā baldat Istanbūl (1764/65)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Jérôme Lentin

19. Syria 1: Chronicle of Ibn Al-Ṣiddīq (1768)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Ahmed Ech-Charfi

20. A letter transmitted by ambassador Hajj Mahdī Bargash from sultan Muḥammad bin ʿAbdallah to sultan Abdul Ḥamīd (1789 ce)

• Transcription
• Translation

Boris Liebrenz

21. Arab merchant letters from the Gotha collection of Arabic manuscripts

• Transcription
• MS Gotha orient. A 2837, doc. 1
• Recto
• Righthand Margin
• Top Margin
• Verso
• Translation
• Recto
• Righthand Margin
• Top Margin
• Verso
• Commentary
• Recto
• Verso
• MS Gotha orient. A 2837, doc. 148
• Transcription
• Recto
• Verso
• Translation
• Recto
• Verso
• Commentary
• Recto
• Verso

Matthew Dudley

22. A Judaeo-Arabic letter from the Prize papers collection, HCA 32/1208/126.2 (1796)

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Olav Ørum

23. The Cairo-Ramla manuscripts, or the Ramle kar, 13 (1800s)

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Magdalen Connolly

24. A 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic folk narrative

• Notes on the Edition
• Transliteration
• 139r.
• 139v.
• 140r.
• 140v.
• Arabic Transliteration
• 139r.
• 139v.
• 140r.
• 140v.
• Translation
• 139r.
• 139v.
• 140r.
• 140v.

Jérôme Lentin

25. Libya 1: Ḥasan Al-Faqīh Ḥasan’s Chronicle Al-Yawmiyyāt Al-Lībiyya (early 19th century)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Jérôme Lentin

26. Libya 2: letter from Ġūma Al-Maḥmūdī (1795–1858) to ʿAzmī Bēk, Daftardār of the ʾIyāla (province) of Tripoli (undated)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Geoffrey Khan et Esther-Miriam Wagner

27. T-s ns 99.38 (1809)

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation

Esther-Miriam Wagner et Mohamed Ahmed

28. Rylands Genizah collection a 803 (1825)

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Jérôme Lentin

29. Syria 2: Chronicle of Muḥammad Saʿīd al-ʾusṭuwānī (1840–1861)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Jérôme Lentin

30. Arabia: a letter from Abdallah Ḥiṣānī to ʿAbdallah Bāšā (1855)

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Liesbeth Zack

31. Excerpts from Yaʿqūb ṣanūʿ’s Abū Naḍḍāra Zarʾa and ʿabd Allāh al-Nadīm’s al-ustāḏ

• Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ
• ʿAbd Allāh al-Nadīm
• Transcription: Abu naḍḍāra zarʾa
• Translation
• Transcription: Al-Ustāḏ
• Translation
• Transcription: Al-Ustāḏ
• Translation
• Commentary
• Orthography
• Morphology
• Syntax

George Kiraz

32. A Disgruntled bishop: a Garshūnī letter from bishop Dinḥā of Midyat to patriarch Peter III

• Transcription
• Recto
• Verso
• Subscript
• Arabic Transcription
• Recto
• Verso
• Subscript
• Translation
• Recto
• Verso
• Subscript
• Commentary

Alex Bellem et G. Rex Smith

33. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Jarādī: Sīrat al-Ḵawāja al-ʾAkram al-Marḥūm Harmān al-ʾAlmānī

• Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary
• Linguistic Notes

Esther-Miriam Wagner

34. Ora ve-Simḥa (1917)

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Charles Häberl

35. A ‘Mandæo-Arabic’ letter from Lady Drower’s correspondence

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

Tania María García-Arévalo

36. An anecdote about Juḥā (1920s)

• Transcription
• Arabic Transcription
• Translation
• Commentary

References