ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma or 'The Story of the Skull’

Olav G. Ørum, M.A. (2014), University of Oslo, is a Ph.D.-fellow at that university. This is his first major publication. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic prophetic legends, to be finished in 2018.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsTechnical Notes and Abbreviations1 Introduction1.1 Judaeo-Arabic Texts: The Presence of a Wide Spectrum of Written and Spoken Varieties1.2 Middle Arabic1.3 Standard Arabic and the Nahḍa1.4 Egyptian Arabic, Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Non-Standard Cairene2 The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition2.1 The Jewish Community in Cairo During the 19th Century2.2 On the Story ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma3 Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma ‘The Story of the Skull’3.1 Introduction to the Three Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts3.2 Reading Guidelines3.3 ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma ‘The Story of the Skull’4 Linguistic Analysis4.1 Orthography and Phonology4.2 Morphology4.3 Syntax4.4 Lexical Features5 Summary and Concluding Remarks5.1 Orthography and Phonology5.2 Morphology5.3 Syntax5.4 Lexical FeaturesAppendix 1: Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel VersionsAppendix 2: Facsimile of ‘Ramle—Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25’ (GAM)ReferencesIndex