Title: HUMANISM, CULTURE, AND LANGUAGE IN THE NEAR EAST: George Krotkoff
Product review: (info from a seller:) "HUMANISM, CULTURE, AND LANGUAGE IN THE NEAR EAST: STUDIES IN HONOR OF GEORGE KROTKOFF", Edited By Asma Afsaruddin and A. H. Mathias Zahniser. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns Publ., 1997, 8vo, xxiii, 440 pages .HARDBOUND); Issued without a dust jacket. In print from the publisher for $59.50. 34 PAPERS ARE PRESENTED IN THIS FINE VOLUME INCLUDING: 1. HUMANISM AND THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM. (BY MICHAEL G. CARTER); 2. THE HIJAB: HOW A CURTAIN BECAME AN INSTITUTION AND A CULTURAL SYMBOL.( BY BARBARA FREYER STOWASSER); 3. A PRELIMINARY LIST OF ARAMAIC LOANWORDS IN KURDISH. (BY MICHAEL IDL. CHYET); 4. A MATTER OF INCONSISTENCY: VARIATIONS OF ARABIC LOANWORDS IN ENGLISH. (BY ALAN S. KAYE); 5. THE STORY OF BALAAM AND HIS SHE-ASS IN FOUR NEO-ARAMAIC DIALECTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TRANSLATIONS.( BY YONA SABAR); 6. THE ALCHEMY OF SOUND: MEDIEVAL ARABIC PHONOSYMBOLISM.(BY KARIN C. RYDING); and others.
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