In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)

2011 Brill hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: (1) Ideology, Grammar-Making and the Standardization of Arabic by Yasir Suleiman, (2) The Andalusian Grammarians, Are They Different? by Michael G. Carter, (3) Khabar / Insha, une fois encore by Pierre Larcher, (4) From Lexical to Grammatical: Nafs and Other Identifiers by Nadia Anghelescu, (5) La coordination a un constituant du noyau en arabe by Hassan Hamze, (6) Mustaqim, muhal, hasan, qabih: Les criteres de recevabilite dans le Kitab de Sibawayhi by Georgine Ayoub, (7) An Afrikaans Footnote to the History of Arabic Grammar: Sheikh Ismail Ganief's Grammar of Arabic (ca. 1958) by Kees Versteegh, (8) Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies by Monique Bernards, (9) Al-Zajjaj and Glassmaking: An Expanded Range of Options in a Comparative Context by Wadad al-Qadi, (10) Against the Arabic Grammarians: Some Poems by Geert Jan van Gelder, (11) Linguistic Observations on the Theonym Allah by Aziz Al-Azmeh, (12) Arabic Datives, Ditransitives, and the Preposition li- by Karin Christina Ryding, (13) Dialects of the Dative Shift: A Re-examination of Sibawayhi's Dispute with the Nahwiyyun over Ditransitive Verbs with Two Object Pronouns by David Wilmsen, (14) Homonymie, polysemie et criteres de distinction by Ibrahim Ben Mrad, (15) Sulami's Treatise on the Science of the Letters ('ilm al-huruf) by Gerhard Bowering, (16) Style formulaire et parallelisme dans le Coran by Georges Bohas, (17) Styles in Premodern Arabic Popular Epics by Peter Heath, (18) Ghazal and Grammar: al-Ba'uni's Tadmin Alfiyyat Ibn Malik fi l-Ghazal by Bilal Orfali, (19) The Qur'an as a Late Antique Text by Angelika Neuwirth, (20) A Formal Description of Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic by Everhard Ditters.…