CONTENTS

Robert Hoyland Obituary for

students view

Patricia

Crone:

Patricia Crone: list of publications

i
v

Mehdy Shaddel Qurnic umm: genealogy, ethnicity,

and the foundation of a new community

Raoul Villano Phonological deletion in the Qurn:

the alternation of isa and istaa
in Srat al-kahf
Francesco Grande From word to construction: a
syntactic etymology of the Qurnic
Arabic lta

61

101

Ofir Haim, The earliest Arabic documents

Michael Shenkar and written on paper: three letters from
Sharof Kurbanov Sanjar-Shah (Tajikistan)

141

Aryeh Levin What does Sbawayhi mean by

arfun... laysa bi-smin wa-l filin

191

Arik Sadan Arab grammarians theories versus

actual linguistic usage: the nasb
(subjunctive) mood after lan and
att as used in al-Ifahns Kitb alaghn

209

Michal Marmorstein Subtleties of narrative syntax:

patterns of chaining in Classical
Arabic narratives

219

Ahmad Ighbariah Grammatical features in Ibn alMuqaffas Categories

Nader~Masarwah Acoustic
~and Ghaleb Anabseh Maqmas

rhythm

in

251

al-arrs

273

Jos Martnez Delgado Rislat al-tanbh by Ibn an: an

edition, translation and study

309

REVIEW ARTICLE
Yaacov Lev The Red Sea: medieval Muslim
internal maritime artery. A review
article

357

REVIEWS
Mohammad-Ali~Amir- David S. Powers. Zayd: the little known
Moezzi story of Muammads adopted son

371

Milka Levy-Rubin William F. Mccants. Founding Gods,

inventing nations: conquest and culture
myths from Antiquity to Islam

381

Mohammad-Ali~Amir- Ehud Krinis. Gods chosen people : Judah

Moezzi Halevis Kuzari and the Sh Imm
doctrine

389

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Phillip~I.~AckermanLieberman

Arabic legal terminology in JudaeoArabic: loanwords or loan shifts?

Benjamin Hary

Spoken late Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic as

reflected in written forms

11

Gabriel M. Rosenbaum

Discussing the use of dialect versus

standard Arabic in Lenn al-Ramls
awi-skits and other texts

37

Ori Shachmon

Writing Palestinian dialects: the case of

ikyat al-xunfus

67

George Grigore

Polyfunctional Latin graphemes used in

writing the spoken Arabic of Siirt

97

Amir Gaash

Colloquial Arabic written in Hebrew

characters on Israeli websites by Druzes
(and other non-Jews)

109

Marie Baize-Varin

tude statistique des formes drives et

de leurs valeurs smantiques travers un
corpus darabe moderne de presse

127

Frank H. Stewart

The word xamsah: additions and

corrections (addendum to JSAI 38 (2011))

163

REVIEW ARTICLE
Frank H. Stewart

Bedouin dialects of the Sinai:

a review article

169

REVIEWS
Anne Broadbridge

Nimrod Luz. The Mamlk city in the Middle

East: history, culture and the urban landscape

221

Meir M. Bar-Asher

Menahem Milson. The on-line ArabicHebrew dictionary of modern Arabic

231