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Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem Translates, edits and discusses the most important Arabic medieval book list for Jerusalem - the largest known dataset on book pricesRethinks the notion of archival and documentary practices in the Mamluk period Provides a new angle on the economic history of the book in the late-medieval period Combines social history and material philology in the field of Middle Eastern historyIn the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. Yet very few have left a documentary trail or have survived as an easily identifiable compact corpus. Writing their histories, understanding their social settings and comprehending their intellectual profiles is therefore a challenge.This book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknown resident, Burhān al-Dīn; after his death, his books were sold in a public auction and the list of objects sold has survived.This list - edited and translated in this volume - shows that a humble part-time reciter of the late 14th century had almost 300 books in his house, evidence that book ownership extended beyond the elite. Based on a corpus of almost fifty documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf collection in Jerusalem, it is also possible to get a rare insight into the social world of such an individual. Finally, the book gives a unique insight into book prices as it will make available the largest such set of data for the pre-Ottoman period.

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As scepticism has rarely been studied in the context of the Arabic culture and its Judeo-Arabic sub-culture, it is small wonder that sceptical motifs of Judah Halevi’s classic theological The Kuzari (written ca. 1140) received very little scholarly attention so far. Thus, the present study seeks to shed light on Halevi’s wrestling with the dogmatic-rationalistic trends of his period from an angle of this much less studied perspective. As a by-product, this study is a contribution to the mainly uncultivated field of traces of scepticism in the Arabic culture.

Judeo-Arabic. . --- Scepticism, Fideism, Arabic. --- RELIGION / Judaism / Theology. --- Judeo-Arabic.

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The present study is a contrastive and empirical investigation of the negative markers nicht in contemporary German (CG) and laysa, lam, lan, lammā, lāta, lā and mā in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Four aspects are analyzed from a comparative point of view: (i) the morphological fusion of the negative markers with indefinites in CG and with clitic particles/suffixes in MSA, which creates a paradigm of negative markers similar to an auxiliary verb paradigm, (ii) the position of those markers in sentence structures, (iii) the interaction between negative markers and verbal or nominal categories, and (iv) the interactions between negation and information structure. Two novels were chosen as the main sources of sample data: "Sommerstück" (1989) ("Piece of Summer") by Christa Wolf for CG and "Bayna al-Qasrayn" (1956) ("Palace Walk") by Naǧib Maḥfūẓ for MSA. The goal of the study is to describe and compare the grammatical organization of negation in both languages. Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine kontrastive, empirisch fundierte Untersuchung der Negationsausdrücke nicht im Gegenwartsdeutschen (GWD) und laysa, lam, lan, lammā, lāta, lā und mā im Modernen Hocharabisch (MHA). Vier Aspekte werden vergleichend analysiert: (i) die morphologische Verschmelzung der Negationsausdrücke mit Indefinita im GWD und mit klitischen Partikeln/Suffixen im MHA; im MHA entsteht ein Paradigma von Negationsausdrücken ähnlich einem Hilfsverb-Paradigma; (ii) die Stellung der genannten Ausdrücke in Satzstrukturen; (iii) die Interaktion zwischen Negationsausdrücken und verbalen oder nominalen Kategorien und (iv) die Interaktion zwischen Negation und Informationsstruktur. Zwei Romane wurden als Datengrundlage gewählt: "Sommerstück" (1989) von Christa Wolf für das GWD und "Bayna al-Qasrayn" (dt. "Zwischen den Palästen") (1956) von Naǧib Maḥfūẓ für das MHA. Ziel der Studie ist es, die grammatische Organisation der Negation in beiden Sprachen zu beschreiben und zu vergleichen.

Arabic language. --- Arabic language --- Study and teaching.