Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8245
V. Tsukanova, Evgeniya Prusskaya
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8087
M. Ibrahim
This essay presents the life-story of a Coptic Christian between the PlayStation lounge, the coffeehouse and the prison. By taking this constellation as a point of departure, I broadly link such a portrait to overlooked contacts between Coptic Christian youth and the clerical hierarchy of the institution of the Coptic Orthodox Church. While attention is usually given to how Copts experience, negotiate and struggle against the various roles of the Church and its tradition of khidma (service), I investigate Coptic youngsters’ lifeworlds when they wish or have to stay invisible from the Coptic Church’s presumptions of representing its congregants.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8091
Jonathan Kriener
During the Lebanese war of 1975 to 1990, the only public university of Lebanon branched out into more than 40 locations all over the country. While this deed reflects the inner division of Lebanon, it also moved the University nearer to the country’s geographical and social peripheries. Employing field research, newspaper articles, and grey literature this article gauges the effects of fragmentation in terms of the dynamics of social control that resulted from it. It shows that by the perspective of social control, sectarianism and clientelism can be observed as related with, but distinct from one another.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8080
Dris Soulaimani
This study discusses the social aspects of script reforms and the hierarchies attached to languages and scripts in contact. In Morocco, Arabic, French, and Berber/Amazigh compete for similar social domains. In recent years, intense debates took place surrounding the official adoption of Tifinagh to codify Amazigh; however less focus has been placed on the unofficial selection of the French-based Latin characters to write both Arabic and Amazigh. This study argues that, besides practicality, preference of the Latin script in Morocco is ideologically connected to the status of French as a language that indexes power, modernity and social prestige.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8094
V. Tsukanova, M. Waltisberg
Virtually all Arabists at some point ask themselves whether they should take into account specialized literature in Arabic, whether to take part in conferences held in Arabic countries, and which language they should choose for publishing their work. In this paper, we try to review this question in a broader context of the language of scholarship. By adducing historical and typological parallels, we reflect on the role of language in conducting research and exchanging ideas. The authors of this article are both linguists specialized in Semitic languages; therefore, they concentrate on the problems of their field, although these should be relevant to some extent also for the adjacent fields in the humanities.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8075
Gavin MURRAY-MILLER
Recent histories of the Mediterranean have drawn attention to the region’s internal diversity and provided a basis for considering the sea and its surrounding coastal areas as a place of trans-national entanglements. While this space was a contact zone between cultures, the dynamics and practices of Mediterranean imperialism frequently extended beyond a strict colonizer-colonized relationship. By examining networks forged through emigre communities, journalism, religion and finances, we can rethink concepts of the contact zone within a trans-imperial context. Assessing forms of engagement across and between imperial frontiers allows us to question the familiar metropole- periphery relationship and examine the connective webs that linked nodal cities and multiple peripheries spanning Europe, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8077
Hanan Natour
Language contacts in poetry differ from other forms of linguistic contacts, allowing writers to merge formal specificities of distinct languages within a single poem. This paper focuses on contacts between Arabic and European languages in selected poems of Adonis (*1930) and Fuad Rifka (1930-2011), both of whom are Syrian-Lebanese by birth and have lived for many years in Western Europe: Adonis in France and Rifka in Germany. How, then, do both poets deal with contacts between Arabic and French or German in their poetry? Can poetry be a way of crossing boundaries by merging patterns of different languages into one? Erratum: p. 84, col. 1, line 23. Printed: الورق. Corrected: الورق.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-22DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.13.8104
A. Sheir
#13–2019 Cairo: al-Majlis al-Aʿ lā li-l-Thaqāfah, 2016, 475 pages. ISBN: 9789779209380 ʻAmr Munīr is an Egyptian historian and specialist in the history of Medieval Egypt. His primary research area is the folklore and cultural heritage of Egypt in the Middle Ages and early modern era. This present work Miṣr fī al-āsātīr al-‘arabīiyah (Egypt in the Arabian Myths) examines the myths about Egypt in the writings of Muslim-Arab travellers and historians. It develops a new approach in modern historical studies that differs from the Arab classical historical studies, which present historical studies built on the classic narratives of the past written by the contemporary chroniclers. In contrast, Munīr’s approach may be considered a transmission stage in recent Arab historiography combining cultural heritage studies and classic historical studies. He seeks to trace the popular imaginations stored in myths and tales that the traditional sources included, but which have been neglected by previous studies. Munīr investigates historical and folk sources of Egypt, Egyptian Society, as well as Egyptian Cities and the Nile. To distinguish between myths and historical events, the author examines the old myths about Egypt that people transmitted through the ages. Munīr then compares and evaluates the perception and transmission of these myths in the writings of the classical Muslim historians, chroniclers and travellers. This method enables Munīr to differentiate between the traditional myths transferred and inherited by generations through the ages, on the one hand, and historical events as recorded in historiographical Arabic sources, on the other. Munīr considers the account of al-Maqrīzī (1364-1442), Kitāb al-mawāʿiẓ wa-l-iʿtibār bi-dhikr al-khīṭaṭ wa-l-āthār (Topographic and historical description of Egypt), which also known as al-khiṭaṭ al-maqrīziyyah, as the most prominent source of this study that contains substantial heritage materials about Egyptian history and folklore. Another significant study source is the book Seyahatnâme Miṣr (book of travel of Egypt) by Evliya Çelebi (1611–82), an Ottoman traveller through the territories of the Ottoman Empire and neighbouring lands. Munīr states that this traveller provided a unique description of Egyptian society and its folklore, including many popular tales, myths and superstitions circulated among the Egyptian populace. The sources of this work include a wide range of contemporaneous Muslim sources. In broad terms, the majority of the sources and writers were chroniclers, eyewitnesses and classical Muslims historians. Therefore, Munīr’s book relied on a variety of other sources, such as Kitāb futūḥ Miṣr wa-akhbāruhā (Conquests of Egypt and REVIEW 103
#13-2019开罗：al-Majlis al-Aʿlāli-l-Thaqāfah，2016年，475页。ISBN:9789779209380ïAmr Munīr是一位埃及历史学家和中世纪埃及史专家。他的主要研究领域是中世纪和现代早期埃及的民间传说和文化遗产。本作品Miṣr fīal-āsātīr al-'arabīiyah（阿拉伯神话中的埃及）研究了穆斯林阿拉伯旅行者和历史学家笔下关于埃及的神话。它在现代历史研究中开辟了一种新的方法，不同于阿拉伯古典历史研究，后者提出的历史研究建立在当代编年史家对过去的经典叙事之上。相比之下，Munīr的方法可能被认为是近代阿拉伯史学结合文化遗产研究和经典历史研究的一个传播阶段。他试图追溯传统来源所包含的神话故事中储存的大众想象力，但这些想象力被以前的研究所忽视。Munīr调查了埃及、埃及社会以及埃及城市和尼罗河的历史和民间来源。为了区分神话和历史事件，作者考察了古往今来人们传播的关于埃及的古老神话。然后，Munīr比较和评估了古典穆斯林历史学家、编年史家和旅行者对这些神话的感知和传播。这种方法使Munīr能够一方面区分代代相传的传统神话，另一方面区分阿拉伯语史料中记录的历史事件。Munīr认为al-Maqrīzī（1364-1442），Kitāb al-mawāiẓ wa-l-iʿtibār bi dhikr al-khīṭ一ṭ wa-l-āthār（埃及的地形和历史描述），也称为al-khiṭ一ṭ al-maqrīziyyah，作为这项研究的最突出来源，该研究包含了关于埃及历史和民间传说的大量遗产材料。另一个重要的研究来源是Seyahatnâme Mi一书ṣr（埃及游记），作者EvliyaÇelebi（1611-82），一位穿越奥斯曼帝国领土和邻国的奥斯曼旅行者。Munīr说，这位旅行者对埃及社会及其民间传说进行了独特的描述，包括在埃及民众中流传的许多流行故事、神话和迷信。这项工作的来源包括广泛的同时代穆斯林来源。从广义上讲，大多数资料来源和作者都是编年史家、目击者和古典穆斯林历史学家。因此，Munīr的书依赖于各种其他来源，如Kitāb fut́ḥ Miṣr wa akhbāruhā（征服埃及和回顾103
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Pub Date : 2019-06-25DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.12.7934
Maryame Amarouche, Koenraad Bogaert
Since the turn of the new century, urban mega-projects became a new growth strategy in Morocco. Yet, in contrast to their utopian promises, urban mega-projects do not solve the contemporary urban crisis in the region, but reproduce it in different ways. A paradigmatic case is the Bouregreg project in the valley between Rabat and Sale. This article considers the ways in which this megaproject represents a means to extract profits and privatize public wealth, but also how it represents an urban laboratory for the development of new modalities of government, control, and domination. Finally it assesses the social impact of the project on small-scale farmers and private landowners.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-25DOI: 10.17192/META.2019.12.8009
Basilius Bawardi
#12–2019 Book Reviewed University of Minnesota Press, 2018 ISBN-13: 9789659251834 Until recently, literary criticism among the Palestinian minority in Israel was dogmatic and ideological and did not meet the ethical standards of true literary critique. Rather, it was nourished by the ideological activities of the political party frameworks of that minority, mainly the Communist Party (RAKAH) and its newspaper al-ittiḥād (The Unity) and magazine al-ghadd (Tomorrow). The critique focused on praising the literary works for the author’s intentions rather than for qualities of the literary text itself. Conversely, it would purposefully crush a work of literature because of the personality of the author or his political or ideological affiliations. I do not believe that this kind of literary criticism did justice to the texts that developed during the national and social struggle of this minority. This book by Ibrahim Taha attempts to address key questions concerning such literary criticism: what is the current state of the field? What key changes has Palestinian literary criticism in Israel undergone? Given the scarcity of literary criticism, how can one balance between the number of literary texts and methodical academic literary criticism?
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