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This volume contains a study of multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic in addition to a critical edition, annotated translation, and a cultural and a grammatical study of The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community , written in 1524 to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews of Cairo from Ahmad Pasha, the governor of Egypt. 'Multiglossia' is a linguistic state in which different varieties of a language exist side by side in a language community and are used under different circumstances or with various functions. 'Judeo-Arabic' has been written and spoken in various forms by Jews throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Part One places the language of the Judeo-Arabic text of the Scroll within the multiglossic history of Judeo-Arabic. Part Two introduces the two critical editions of the Scroll, both in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic, with the variant readings followed by an annotated translation. Part Three presents a detailed grammar of the Scroll using the framework of Judeo-Arabic multiglossia.

Judeo-Arabic language --- Diglossia (Linguistics) --- Arabic language --- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic. --- Variation. --- Dialects. --- 809.27 --- 933.72 --- -Diglossia (Linguistics) --- -Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic --- Judeo-Arabic manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Arabic (Judeo-Arabic) --- Jews --- Language shift --- Linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Code switching (Linguistics) --- Semitic languages --- Arabisch --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: diaspora in Egypte en Noord-Afrika --- Dialects --- Variation --- Judeo-Arabic --- Languages --- 933.72 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: diaspora in Egypte en Noord-Afrika --- 809.27 Arabisch --- Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic --- Megilat Purim al Miṣriyin. --- Cairene Purim scroll --- Megillat Pūrīm il-Miṣriyyin --- Purim scroll of the Cairene Jewish community --- Judeo-Arabic language - Variation. --- Arabic language - Dialects.