N. Haeri: Sacred Language, Ordinary People

Cover: 9780312238971 | Sacred Language, Ordinary People | N. Haeri | Taschenbuch | xvi | 2003

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Beschreibung

The cultures and politics of nations around the world may be understood (or misunderstood) in any number of ways. For the Arab world, language is the crucial link for a better understanding of both. Classical Arabic is the official language of all Arab states although it is not spoken as a mother tongue by any group of Arabs. As the language of the Qur'an, it is also considered to be sacred. For more than a century and a half, writers and institutions have been engaged in struggles to modernize Classical Arabic in order to render it into a language of contemporary life. What have been the achievements and failures of such attempts? Can Classical Arabic be sacred and contemporary at one and the same time? This book attempts to answer such questions through an interpretation of the role that language plays in shaping the relations between culture, politics, and religion in Egypt.

Über den Autor

NILOOFAR HAERI is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She was a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (1999-2000) and is an internationally recognized scholar of Arabic. She has conducted research on language change and its relation to class and gender in Egypt. Among her publications are The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class, and Education (Kegan Paul International, 1996) and Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics: Papers Published by Charles Ferguson 1948-1992, with K. Belnap (E. J. Brill, 1997).

Zusammenfassung

Written by author of textbooks in linguistic anthropology

Innovative in methodology and scope: makes important contributions to the study of modernity and textual cultures in anthropology

Important for understanding of Egyptian nationalism

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Humble Custodians of the Divine Word: Classical Arabic in Daily Life Text Regulation and Site Ideology Creating Contemporaneity: Struggles with Form Persistent Dilemmas: Pleasure, Power, and Ambiguity Conclusion

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xvi 184 S.
ISBN-13:	9780312238971
ISBN-10:	0312238975
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Haeri, N.
Auflage:	2003 edition
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave MacMillan Us
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	202 x 154 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	N. Haeri
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.02.2003
Gewicht:	0,227 kg