Colonial Vocabularies
Subtitle: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870–1970
By: edited by Sarah Irving, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Rachel Mairs, and Lucia Admiraal
Series: Languages and Culture in History,
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2025
Language: eng
Format: e-book
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789048560400
Copyright date: 2025
First sentence: Speakers of Arabic have been teaching their language to people from other cultures for perhaps two millennia; this much we can surmise from examples of traders, diplomats, and scholars throughout late antiquity and the medieval period.
Table of contents: label: Notes on Transliteration
pagenum: 7; label: List of Figures
pagenum: 9; label: 1.
title: Introduction
pagenum: 11; title: Sarah Irving, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Rachel Mairs and Lucia Admiraal; label: 2.
title: For God and empire: Arabic at the University of Edinburgh: Its development, character and mission
pagenum: 29; title: Anthony Gorman; label: 3.
title: Arab intellectuals in Russia (nineteenth–twentieth century): Teaching, research and politics
pagenum: 55; title: Lora Gerd; label: 4.
title: “I hope you will teach your daughters to read”: Dialogues in Arabic language guides from nineteenth-century Egypt
pagenum: 79; title: Liesbeth Zack; label: 5.
title: “Like the bleating of a goat”: Teaching learners to pronounce the ‘difficult’ Arabic consonants (1798–1945)
pagenum: 109; title: Rachel Mairs; label: 6.
title: The Manual of Palestinean [sic] Arabic: Politics in a late-Ottoman language textbook
pagenum: 139; title: Sarah Irving; label: 7.
title: “Send my regards to those working on the al-Balādhurī manuscript”: The study of Arabic and Islam in interwar Jerusalem as intellectual common ground
pagenum: 159; title: Amit Levy; label: 8.
title: “Our Greek dignity and our educational autonomy”: Arabic language teaching in Greek schools, 1950s to 1970s
pagenum: 187; title: Eftychia Mylona; label: 9.
title: Arabic language teaching as a battleground: Colonial and nationalist myths and discourses on Arabic in Morocco
pagenum: 207; title: Kaoutar Ghilani; label: 10.
title: When Tamazight was part of the world
pagenum: 239; title: Brahim El Guabli; label: Index
pagenum: 267