Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic

E.W.A. (Liesbeth) Zack, PhD (2009), is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research interests are: historical sources of the Egyptian Arabic dialects, Middle Arabic, and modern Egyptian Arabic.Arie Schippers, PhD (1988), Semitic and Romance languages student (1966-74) and researcher (1974-76) at Leiden University, taught Hebrew at Nijmegen University (1976-77), and Arabic at the University of Amsterdam (1977-2012). He has published on Arabic and Hebrew literatures in connection with Romance literatures.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Middle and Mixed Arabic, a new trend in Arabic StudiesJohannes den Heijer2. Moyen arabe et variétés mixtes de l’arabe : premier essai de bibliographie Supplément n° 1Jérôme Lentin3. Some remarks about Middle Arabic and Saʿadya Gaon’s Arabic translation of the Pentateuch in manuscripts of Jewish, Samaritan, Coptic Christian, and Muslim provenanceBerend Jan Dikken4. Linguistic and cultural features of an Iraqi Judeo-Arabic text of the qiṣaṣ al-ʾanbiyāʾ genreLutz Edzard5. Deux types de moyen arabe dans la version arabe du discours 41 de Grégoire de Nazianze ?Jacques Grand’Henry6. Présentation du livre Le Conte du Portefaix et des Trois Jeunes Femmes, dans le manuscrit de Galland(XIVe-XVe siècles)Bruno Halflants7. Judeo-Arabic as a Mixed LanguageBenjamin Hary8. The story of Zayd and Kaḥlāʾ – A folk story in a Judaeo-Arabic manuscriptRachel Hasson Kenat9. Towards an inventory of Middle and Mixed Arabic features: the inscriptions of Deir Mar Musa (Syria) as a case StudyJohannes den Heijer10. Qui est arabophone? Les variétés de l’arabe dans la définition d’une compétence nativeAmr Helmy Ibrahim11. Perspectives ecdotiques pour textes en moyen arabe : l’exemple des traités théologiques de Sulaymān al-Ġazzī Paolo La Spisa12. Normes orthographiques en moyen arabe : sur la notation du vocalisme brefJérôme Lentin13. Playing the same game? Notes on comparing spoken contemporary Mixed Arabic and (pre)modern written Middle ArabicGunvor Mejdell14. Middle Arabic in Moshe Darʿī’s Judaeo-Arabic PoemsArie Schippers15. Written Judeo-Arabic: Colloquial versus Middle ArabicYosef Tobi16. Yefet ben ʽEli’s Commentary on the Book of ZechariahKees de Vreugd17. Damascus Arabic according to the Compendio of Lucas Caballero (1709)Otto Zwartjes and Manfred WoidichList of ContributorsAppendix: Colour illustrations from Lucas Caballero’s CompendioIndex

"The papers collected here represent the best of the conference volume genre, comprising a sharing of findings in an ongoing research enterprise with the broader scholarly community. The contributors are all active scholars in the field, most with long publication records." David Wilmsen, Linguist List, 09-12-2012, http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-5132.html.