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Author:   Heleen Murre-van den Berg ,  Karene 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
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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, Vic, Ic, Is, 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 Dad : Language and Ethnicity in the Nationalist Poetry of Fu'ad 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). Karene 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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