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Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War. This volume takes its starting point in the non-Arabic and non-Muslim communities, tracing their linguistic and literary practices as part of a number of interlinked processes, including that of religious modernization, of new types of communal identity politics and of socio-political engagement with the emerging nation states and their accompanying nationalisms. These twentieth-century developments are firmly rooted in literary and linguistic practices of the Ottoman period, but take new turns under influence of colonization and decolonization, showing the versatility and resilience as much as the vulnerability of these linguistic and religious minorities in the region. Contributors are Tijmen C. Baarda, Leyla Dakhli, Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah, Liora R. Halperin, Robert Isaf, Michiel Leezenberg, Merav Mack, Heleen Murre-van den Berg, Konstantinos Papastathis, Franck Salameh, Cyrus Schayegh, Emmanuel Szurek, Peter Wien.

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Author:   Heleen Murre-van den Berg ,  Karène Sanchez Summerer ,  Tijmen Baarda
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.622kg
ISBN:  

9789004382695

ISBN 10:   9004382690
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, Arabic

Table of Contents

Preface  Heleen Murre-van den Berg Note on Transcription Notes on Contributors 1 Arabic and its Alternatives: Language and Religion in the Ottoman Empire and its Successor States  Heleen Murre-van den Berg 2 Vernacularization as Governmentalization: the Development of Kurdish in Mandate Iraq  Michiel Leezenberg 3 “Yan, Of, Ef, Viç, İç, İs, Dis, Pulos …”: the Surname Reform, the “Non-Muslims,” and the Politics of Uncertainty in Post-genocidal Turkey  Emmanuel Szurek 4 “Young Phoenicians” and the Quest for a Lebanese Language: between Lebanonism, Phoenicianism, and Arabism  Franck Salameh 5 “Those Who Pronounce the Ḍād”: Language and Ethnicity in the Nationalist Poetry of Fuʾad al-Khatib (1880–1957)  Peter Wien 6 Arabic and the Syriac Christians in Iraq: Three Levels of Loyalty to the Arabist Project (1920–1950)  Tijmen C. Baarda 7 Awakening, or Watchfulness: Naum Faiq and Syriac Language Poetry at the Fall of the Ottoman Empire  Robert Isaf 8 Global Jewish Philanthropy and Linguistic Pragmatism in Baghdad  Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah 9 Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of Arabic in Mandate Palestine  Liora R. Halperin 10 United by Faith, Divided by Language: the Orthodox in Jerusalem  Merav Mack 11 Arabic vs. Greek: the Linguistic Aspect of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church Controversy in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate  Konstantinos Papastathis 12 Between Local Power and Global Politics: Playing with Languages in the Franciscan Printing Press of Jerusalem  Leyla Dakhli 13 Epilogue  Cyrus Schayegh Index

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Heleen Murre-van den Berg, PhD Leiden 1995, is Professor of Global Christianity at Radboud University, Nijmegen and director of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. Recent publications include (with S.R. Goldstein-Sabbah), Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East (Leiden, 2016) and Scribes and Scriptures: The Church of the East in the Eastern Ottoman Provinces (1500-1850) (Louvain, 2015). Karène Sanchez Summerer, PhD Leiden 2009; Paris 2014, is Associate Professor at Leiden University. Her research considers the interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies and the Arab communities (1860-1948) in Palestine. Recent publication: (K.Sanchez and P. Bourmaud (eds)) Missions/ Powers/ Arabization. Changes and Networks, Social Sciences and Missions (2019) 32, 3-4. Tijmen C. Baarda is subject librarian for Middle Eastern studies at Leiden University Libraries. His research focuses on Syriac Christianity in the modern Middle East. He has recently defended a PhD dissertation about the use of Arabic, Syriac, Neo-Aramaic and other languages by the Christians of Iraq in the period 1920–1950.

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