The unkempt heritage: on the role of Latin in the Arabic-Islamic sphere
As linguistic systems, Latin and Arabic have interacted for centuries. The article at hand aims at analysing the status of the Latin language in the Arab and Arabic-Islamic sphere. Starting out from the observation that Latin-Christian and Arabic-Islamic scholarship dedicated a very different degree...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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Arabica
Year: 2016, Volume: 63, Issue: 5, Pages: 419-493 |
| Further subjects: | B
Arabic
Arabe
Latin
latin
Romance languages
langues romanes
translations
traductions
linguistic interaction
interaction linguistique
Orientalism
Orientalisme
Occidentalism
Occidentalisme
relations between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic sphere
relations entre l’Europe chrétienne et le monde arabo-musulman
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| Summary: | As linguistic systems, Latin and Arabic have interacted for centuries. The article at hand aims at analysing the status of the Latin language in the Arab and Arabic-Islamic sphere. Starting out from the observation that Latin-Christian and Arabic-Islamic scholarship dedicated a very different degree of attention to the study of the respective ‘other’ language in the course of the centuries, the article traces the impact of Latin on an emerging Arabic language in Antiquity, provides an overview on the various references to Latin found in works of Arabic-Islamic scholarship produced in the medieval and modern periods, and provides an exhaustive list of Arabic translations of Latin texts. A description of the role played by Latin in the Arabic-speaking world of our times is followed by a discussion of several hypotheses that try to explain why Latin was rarely studied systematically in the Arabic-Islamic sphere before the twentieth century. |
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| Physical Description: | 75 |
| ISSN: | 1570-0585 |
| Contains: | In: Arabica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341414 |