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What was Philology in Arabic?

Conference Poster.
International conference "What was Philology in Arabic? Arabic-Islamic Textual Practices in the Early Modern World", held at Freie Universität Berlin from 13-15 July 2017.

The majority of the articles assembled in this special issue were originally presented at a conference entitled “What was Philology in Arabic? Arabic-Islamic Textual Practices in the Early Modern World” at Freie Universität Berlin on 13–15 July, 2017.
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The journal Philological Encounters (PHEN) is dedicated to a historical and philosophical critique of philology and promotes critical and comparative perspectives with the aim of integrating textual scholarship and the study of language from across the world.

What was Philology in Arabic?, the new volume of the journal Philological Encounters, consists of the following articles:

Issue 1-2

What was Philology in Arabic? by Islam Dayeh

From Medieval Tribes to Modern Dialects: on the Afterlives of Colonial Knowledge in Arabic Dialectology by Adam Benkato

Feeling the Grammar: Literary Translations of the Dual Inflection in Arabic by Anna Ziajka Stanton

A Shared Set of Solecisms: the Mamlūk and Ottoman Reception of al-Ḥarīrī’s Durrat al-ghawwāṣ by Colinda Lindermann

(De-)Limiting the Universal: Engaging with Arabic in Muslim Tamil Poetry by Torsten Tschacher

Al-Ṣafadī, His Critics, and the Drag of Philological Time by Adam Talib

Collating The Signs of Benevolent Deeds: Muḥammad Mahdī al-Fāsī’s Commentary on Muḥammad al-Jazūlī’s Dalā’il al-Khayrāt and Its Ottoman Readers by Guy Burak


Issue 3-4

Doing Things with Arabic in the Seventeenth-Century Escorial by Daniel Hershenzon

The Bohra Manuscript Treasury as a Sacred Site of Philology: a Study in Social Codicology by Olly Akkerman

Arsāniyūs Shukrī al-Ḥakīm’s Account of His Journey to France, the Iberian Peninsula, and Italy (1748–1757) from Travel Journal to Edition by Feras Krimsti

From Taṣḥīḥ to Taḥqīq: Toward a History of the Arabic Critical Edition by Islam Dayeh

 

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Philological Encounters welcomes innovative and critical contributions in the form of articles as well as review articles of usually two to three related books, preferably from different disciplines. It is open to contributions from all disciplines studying the history of textual practices, hermeneutics, philology, philological controversies, or the global history of writing, archiving, tradition-making and publishing. An overview of previous issues and a more detailed overview of the submission process can be found on the journal's webpage.

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