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| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Publication | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction: George Krotkoff as Scholar and Teacher | p. 1 |
| Humanism, Culture, and Literature | |
| Inquiry into the Origins of Humanism | p. 15 |
| Humanism and the Language Sciences in Medieval Islam | p. 27 |
| Cosmic Numbers: The Symbolic Design of Nizami's Haft Paykar | p. 39 |
| Playing with the Sacred: Religious Intertext in Adab Discourse | p. 51 |
| From Revolt to Resignation: The Life of Shaykh Muhsin Sharara | p. 61 |
| Sura as Guidance and Exhortation: The Composition of Surat al-Nisa | p. 71 |
| The Hijab: How a Curtain Became an Institution and a Cultural Symbol | p. 87 |
| The Development of Fictional Genres: The Novel an Short Story in Arabic | p. 105 |
| An Arabic Poem in an Israeli Controversy: Mahmud Darwish's "Passing Words" | p. 119 |
| Bi-l'Arabi al-fasih: An Egyptian Play Looks at Contemporary Arab Society | p. 129 |
| Arabic | |
| Learning Arabic: A Lifetime Commitment | p. 145 |
| The Alchemy of Sound: Medieval Arabic Phonosymbolism | p. 155 |
| Al-Khalil's Legacy | p. 165 |
| The Etymology of Muqarnas: Some Observations | p. 175 |
| Egyptian Arabic and Dialect Contact in Historical Perspective | p. 185 |
| On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic | p. 199 |
| Ein arabischer Text aus Constantine (Algerien) | p. 225 |
| Aramaic | |
| Zur griechischen Nebenuberlieferung im Syrischen | p. 237 |
| Syriac Loanwords in Classical Armenian | p. 247 |
| The Modern Chaldean Pronunciation of Classical Syriac | p. 253 |
| Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 | p. 267 |
| Zum neuaramaischen Dialekt von Hassane | p. 275 |
| A Preliminary List of Aramaic Loanwords in Kurdish | p. 283 |
| The Story of Balaam and His She-Ass in Four Neo-Aramaic Dialects: A Comparative Study of the Translations | p. 301 |
| A Comparative Study of Pet Names in English and Assyrian | p. 319 |
| Afroasiatic | |
| The Trickle-Down Approach | p. 337 |
| Ablaut im Verbalsystem osttschadischer Sprachen | p. 345 |
| Akkadian lisan-u-m, Arabic lisa-u-n: Which Is the Older Form? | p. 355 |
| Ancient Egyptian, Ottoman Turkish, and Other Linguistic Matters | |
| You Gotta Have Heart | p. 363 |
| The Protean Arabic Abjad | p. 369 |
| A Matter of Inconsistency: Variations of Arabic Loanwords in English | p. 385 |
| The Language and Prose Style of Bostan's Suleymanname | p. 401 |
| Language and Script in Ancient Egypt | p. 419 |
| Contributors | p. 429 |
| Index of Authors | p. 433 |
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