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Beth Qa¿raye - Mario Kozah,George Kiraz

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2021-01-27
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Beth Qäraye, Syriac for "region of the Qataris," is a term found in Syriac literature referring to the region of north-eastern Arabia, including modern-day Qatar and Bahrain, from the fourth to the ninth centuries. Beth Qäraye was an important cultural, linguistic and religious crossroads in the pre-Islamic and early Islamic period, when it produced a number of important East-Syriac authors. Scholarship has ... Full description

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Beth Qäraye, Syriac for "region of the Qataris," is a term found in Syriac literature referring to the region of north-eastern Arabia, including modern-day Qatar and Bahrain, from the fourth to the ninth centuries. Beth Qäraye was an important cultural, linguistic and religious crossroads in the pre-Islamic and early Islamic period, when it produced a number of important East-Syriac authors. Scholarship has so far only focused on these Syriac authors and their writings rather than other aspects of Beth Qäraye. This volume presents and analyzes information on the pre-Islamic and early Islamic historical geography and toponyms of the Beth Qäraye region as well as newly discovered vocabulary from a language referred to as Qär¿y¿th ("in Qatari") used by its inhabitants. Based on analysis of this new data, Mario Kozah argues that Qär¿y¿th is in fact a local Arabic dialect transliterated using Syriac letters. Thus, Qär¿y¿th consists mostly of Arabic vocabulary (as well as a few Syriac and Pahlavi loanwords), and maintains mainly Arabic with some Syriac grammatical structures and lexical influence. As such, it constitutes the oldest documented Arabic vernacular from the seventh-century Arabian Peninsula, revealing a language in rapid transformation. The volume also includes a special chapter on the islands of the Gulf region according to Muslim sources by Saif Al-Murikhi and a unique reconstruction of the lexicon of ¿enanisho¿ bar Seroshway (ca. 900) by George Kiraz.

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Author Mario Kozah, George Kiraz
Publisher Gorgias Press LLC
Release year 2021
Cover type Hardcover
EAN 9781463241391
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