The story of Majnun and Leyla has been told in legends, songs, poems, plays, and epics from the Caucasus to Africa and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean--a story of tragic and endless love. This volume consists of a translation into English of several of Majnun's poems to Leyla together with comments and an Introduction.
The story of Majnun and Leyla has been told in legends, songs, poems, plays, and epics from the Caucasus to Africa and from the Atlantic to the Indian...
Akesson puts forth a comprehensive study of two well-known phonological changes in Arabic: the assimilation and the substitution. She explores in detail many various cases in which these changes are possible, necessary, or forbidden.
Akesson puts forth a comprehensive study of two well-known phonological changes in Arabic: the assimilation and the substitution. She explores in deta...
Product Description Despite the amount of material about Arabic grammar, phonology, and morphology, the need for a book combining an independent study in morphology with theoretical discussions is more than evident. This book fills that void by proposing an in-depth analysis of various morphological issues based on the seven classes of verbs and their nine derivatives. These classical classes are the strong verb, the doubled, the hamzated, the verb with 1st radical w or y, the verb with 2nd radical w or y, the verb with 3rd radical w or y, and the verb that is doubly weak. The nine...
Product Description Despite the amount of material about Arabic grammar, phonology, and morphology, the need for a book combining an independent study...
Product Description Phonology is the study of the changes that can affect a word, and sometimes even two words, for different reasons relating to a certain implied heaviness, like the existence of two identical letters or two letters that are close to each other or a hamza or a weak letter. The phonological changes are recognized as the assimilation of a letter to another, the substitution of a letter for another, the addition or elision of a letter or vowel and the transfer of a letter or vowel to another position. This study explores in detail when these changes are necessary, allowed or...
Product Description Phonology is the study of the changes that can affect a word, and sometimes even two words, for different reasons relating to a ce...
Despite the amount of material about Arabic grammar, phonology, and morphology, the need for a book combining an independent study in morphology with theoretical discussions is more than evident. This book fills that void by proposing an in-depth analysis of various morphological issues based on the seven classes of verbs and their nine derivatives. These classical classes are the strong verb, the doubled, the hamzated, the verb with 1st radical w or y, the verb with 2nd radical w or y, the verb with 3rd radical w or y, and the verb that is doubly weak. The nine derivatives are the perfect,...
Despite the amount of material about Arabic grammar, phonology, and morphology, the need for a book combining an independent study in morphology with ...
One of the interesting features in Arabic linguistics is the reference to causes and principles in the explanation of many linguistic phenomena. This scientific approach seems to have developed from the middle of the 8th century and onwards with the influence of Greek philosophy on Arabic linguistics and on other disciplines. The present book provides information on several causes and principles in Arabic morphology and phonology, with a strong focus on the words, letters and vowels. Examples, qur'anic quotations and verses are presented in both Arabic script and Roman transcription and...
One of the interesting features in Arabic linguistics is the reference to causes and principles in the explanation of many linguistic phenomena. This ...
Proverbs bring color to our speech. A way to understand a foreign culture is to learn its proverbs. This book presents a selection of more than 700 proverbs and wise sayings from the Arabic world. The dialectal forms are changed and presented in Modern Standard Arabic. The Arabic expressions are paralleled with transliterations, translations into English, and often explanations and English equivalents. The aim of the study is to enlarge the reader's vocabulary in Arabic and to stimulate cross cultural discussions. About the Author Joyce Akesson has studied the Semitic languages at Lund's...
Proverbs bring color to our speech. A way to understand a foreign culture is to learn its proverbs. This book presents a selection of more than 700 pr...
The main body of the present book is a presentation of 62 Arabic poems in the original from the 7th century of the work of Qays b. al-Mulawwah (d. 688), also known as Majnun Leyla "the one who was mad about Leyla." Each Arabic poem has an English translation on the facing page. The English text has footnotes referring to comments that are placed at the end of the work. The poems tell the story of Qays' love to his cousin, Leyla bint Mahd y (d. 688), better known as Leyla al-Amir ya, and provide insights into themes that were prevalent in the ashar al-ghazal al-udhr "platonic or virginal love...
The main body of the present book is a presentation of 62 Arabic poems in the original from the 7th century of the work of Qays b. al-Mulawwah (d. 688...
