Research Catalog

Title

The Damascus Psalm Fragment : Middle Arabic and the Legacy of Old Ḥigāzī / by Ahmad Al-Jallad ; with a contribution by Ronny Vollandt.

Author

Al-Jallad, Ahmad

Publication

• Chicago, Illinois : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Vollandt, Ronny

Description

xxiv, 135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Summary

This new Oriental Institute series - Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (LAMINE) - aims to publish a variety of scholarly works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions, translations, studies of corpora of documents - in short, any work that offers a significant contribution to understanding the Near East between roughly 200 and 1000 CE. LAMINE 2 investigates Arabic's transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It asks, What would Arabic's early history look like if we wrote it based on the documentary evidence? The book frames this question through the linguistic investigation of the Damascus Psalm Fragment (PF), the longest Arabic text composed in Greek letters from the early Islamic period. It is argued that its language is a witness to the Arabic vernacular of the early Islamic period, and then moves to understand its relationship with Arabic of the pre-Islamic period, the Qur'anic Consonantal Text, and the first Islamic century papyri, arguing that all of this material belongs to a dialectal complexed we call Old Higazi. The book concludes by presenting a scenario for the emergence of standard Classical Arabic as the literary language of the late eighth century and beyond.

Series Statement

Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East ; number 2

Uniform Title

Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East ; no. 2.

Subjects

• Manuscripts
• History
• Syria > Damascus
• Saudi Arabia > Hejaz
• Intellectual life
• Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) > Intellectual life > History
• Arabic language > Writing > History
• Manuscripts > Saudi Arabia > Hejaz
• Manuscripts > Syria > Damascus

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xv- xxiv) and indexes.

Contents

Preface -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Bibliography -- Contributions -- 1. The History of Arabic through Its Texts / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- 2. The Psalm Fragment: Script, Phonology, and Morphology / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- 3. Dating and Localizing the Document, Writing System, and Language / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- 4. Old Arabic, Middle Arabic, and Old Ḥigāzī / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- 5. Edition of the Arabic Columns of the Damascus Psalm Fragment / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- Appendix 1: Beyond Arabic in Greek Letters: The Scribal and Translational Context of the Violet Fragment / Ronny Vollandt -- Appendix 2: Pre-Islamic Graeco-Arabic Texts / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- Index.

Call Number

JFF 21-398

ISBN

• 1614910529
• 9781614910527

OCLC

1237125002

Author

Al-Jallad, Ahmad, author.

Title

The Damascus Psalm Fragment : Middle Arabic and the Legacy of Old Ḥigāzī / by Ahmad Al-Jallad ; with a contribution by Ronny Vollandt.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East ; number 2

Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East ; no. 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages xv- xxiv) and indexes.

Added Author

Vollandt, Ronny, contributor.

Research Call Number

JFF 21-398