Creating Standards: Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2019

Creating Standards

Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures

Edited by: Dmitry Bondarev , Alessandro Gori and Lameen Souag

Volume 16 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110639063

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Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts interact. A wide range of case studies give insights into the factors behind uniformity and variation in Judeo-Arabic in Hebrew script, South Palestinian Christian Arabic, New Persian, Aljamiado of the Spanish Moriscos, Ottoman Turkish, a single multilingual Ottoman manuscript, Sino-Arabic in northwest China, Malay Jawi in the Moluccas, Kanuri and Hausa in Nigeria, Kabyle in Algeria, and Ethiopian Fidäl script as used to transliterate Arabic. One of the findings of this volume is that different domains of manuscript cultures have distinct paths of standardisation, so that orthography tends to develop its own standardisation principles irrespective of norms applied to layout and script types. This book will appeal to readers interested in manuscript studies, sociolinguistics, literacy studies, and history of writing.

provides a cross-cultural comparison
twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions in different cultures, scripts and languages
insights into the factors of uniformity and variation

Author / Editor information

D. Bondarev, Hamburg, Germany; A. Gori, Copenhagen, Denmark and L. Souag, Paris, France.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Transliteration of Arabic and some Arabic-based Script Graphemes used in this Volume (including Persian and Malay) Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Orthographic Polyphony in Arabic Script Dmitry Bondarev Open Access Download PDF	1
Persian Language in Arabic Script: The Formation of the Orthographic Standard and the Different Graphic Traditions of Iran in the First Centuries of the Islamic Era Paola Orsatti Open Access Download PDF	39
Writing Judaeo-Arabic Esther-Miriam Wagner Open Access Download PDF	73
Cross Palaeographic Traditions. Some Examples from Old Christian Arabic Sources Paolo La Spisa Open Access Download PDF	93
Uses and Written Practices in Aljamiado Manuscripts Nuria de Castilla Open Access Download PDF	111
How to write Turkish? The Vagaries of the Arabo-Persian Script in Ottoman-Turkish Texts Jan Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	131
Developing Consistency in the Absence of Standards – A Manuscript as a Melting- Pot of Languages, Religions and Writing Systems Branka Ivušić Open Access Download PDF	147
Standardisation in Manuscripts written in Sino-Arabic Scripts and xiaojing Florian Sobieroj Open Access Download PDF	177
A Collection of Unstandardised Consistencies? The Use of Jawi Script in a Few Early Malay Manuscripts from the Moluccas Jan van der Putten Open Access Download PDF	217
Standardisation Tendencies in Kanuri and Hausa Ajami Writings Dmitry Bondarev and Nikolay Dobronravin Open Access Download PDF	237
Kabyle in Arabic Script: A History without Standardisation Lameen Souag Open Access Download PDF	273
Beyond ‘aǧamī in Ethiopia: a short Note on an Arabic-Islamic Collection of Texts written in Ethiopian Script (fidäl) Alessandro Gori Open Access Download PDF	297
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	313
Index of Persons Open Access Download PDF	315

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Manuscript studies, sociolinguistics, history, literacy studies, philology, history of writing, Arabic and Islamic studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 326
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 35
Keywords: Christian Arabic; Aljamiado; Arabo-Persian; Sino-Arabic; Judaeo-Arabic

eBook

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9783110639063

Hardcover

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9783110634983