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BETH QA?RAYE IBD

GEORGE KIRAZ / MARIO KOZAH
GORGIAS PRESS LLC
01 / 2021
9781463241391
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Sinopsis

Beth Qaṡraye, 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.áBeth Qaṡraye 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.áScholarship has so far only focused on these Syriac authors and their writings rather than other aspects of Beth Qaṡraye.áThis volume presents and analyzes information on the pre-Islamic and early Islamic historical geography and toponyms of the Beth Qaṡraye region as well as newly discovered vocabulary from a language referred to as QaṡrÄüyÄ«th ('in Qatari') used by its inhabitants.áBased on analysis of this new data, Mario Kozah argues that QaṡrÄüyÄ«th is in fact a local Arabic dialect transliterated using Syriac letters. Thus, QaṡrÄüyÄ«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.áAs such, it constitutes the oldest documented Arabic vernacular from the seventh-century Arabian Peninsula, revealing a language in rapid transformation.áThe 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 á¸ñenanishoÊ¿ bar Seroshway (ca. 900) by George Kiraz.