Siculo Arabic

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-98188-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 588 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1090 g

First Published in 1996. Within a span of three hundred years Sicily underwent two processes of ethnic, cultural and linguistic transformation. Under the Arab rule it witnessed a period of change from Hellenization and Christianization to Arabization and Islamization. This study looks at Arabization and Arabicization with Arabization means the process of conforming to a culture and an ethnic community, in this case Arab, while Arabicization a process of adopting Arabic as a language or dialect which was socially and economically advantageous at the time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agius, Dionisius A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction Chapter One The Land of the Siculans Chapter Two The Siculo Arabic: Ethnic and Social Features Chapter Three The Socio-Linguistic Scene of Islamic and Post-Islamic Sicily Chapter Four The Role of Ibn Makki in Siculo Arabic Chapter Five Siculo-Latin Arabic: Phonological Correspondences Chapter Six Siculo-Arabic: Phonological Correspondences Chapter Seven Romance and Greek Interferences in Siculo-Arabic Chapter Eight Siculo-Middle Arabic

Über Autor(innen)

Dionisius A. Agius