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Antoine Borrut, Manuela Ceballos, Alison Vacca (eds). Pages: 500 p. Illustrations:36 b/w, 1 col., 3 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2024. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-60301-8. Hardback -- SUMMARY Traditional accounts of Arabicization have often favoured linear narratives of language change instead of delving into the diversity of peoples, processes, and languages that informed the fate of Arabic in the early Islamic world. Using a wide range of case studies from the caliphal centres at Damascus and Baghdad to the provinces of Arabia, Egypt, Armenia, and Central Asia, Navigating Language reconsiders these prevailing narratives by analysing language change in different regions of the early Islamic world through the lens of multilingualism and language change. This volume complicates the story of Arabic by building on the work of scholars in Late Antiquity who have abundantly demonstrated the benefits of embracing multilingualism as a heuristic framework. The three main themes include imperial strategies of language use, the participation of local elites in the process of language change, and the encounters between languages on the page, in the markets, and at work. This volume brings together historians and art historians working on the interplay of Arabic and other languages during the early Islamic period to provide a critical resource and reference tool for students and scholars of the cultural and social history of language in the Near East and beyond. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Antoine Borrut, Manuela Ceballos, and Alison M. Vacca, Multilingualism in the Early Islamic World Section One: Languages of the Umayyad Caliphate Petra M. Sijpesteijn, The Early Islamic Empire s Policy of Multilingual Governance Marie Legendre, The Translation of the Dīwān and the Making of the Marwanid "Language Reform": Secretarial Agency, Economic Incentives, and Regional Dynamics in the Umayyad State Antoine Borrut, Towards an Arabic Cosmopolis: Culture and Power in Early Islam Section Two: Multilingualism, Empires, and Local Elites Muriel Debié, The Arabs and Northern Languages and Scripts before Islam Robert Haug, Triliteral Coins and Political Authority along a Contentious Frontier: Between Arabic, Bactrian, and Pahlavi in Late Antique Khurasan Alison M. Vacca, Arabic and the Public Performance of Power in Early Medieval Armenia Judith A. Lerner, From Bactrian to Arabic: Changes in Seals and Sealing Practices as Observed in the Documents from Bactria Section Three: Languages in Contact and Shared Spaces Khodadad Rezakhani, Navigating Persian: Travels and Tribulations of Middle Iranian Languages Aaron Butts, Once Again, the Twin Histories of Arabic and Aramaic (with a Focus on Syriac) Arianna D Ottone Rambach, Sharing the Written Space: Contact and Interaction between Arabic and Other Scripts as Attested by Palaeographical and Codicological Evidence Fred Astren, ʿAbbasid Book Culture and Ninth-Century Jewish Sectarianism . Seller Inventory # 02529
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