Colonial Vocabularies : Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, Sarah.

Contributor:

Sanchez-Summerer, Karene.

Mairs, Rachel.

Admiraal, Lucia.

Series:

Languages and Culture in History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Study and teaching--History.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World War – were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and increasingly competed with each other by promoting their languages and cultures abroad, by means of both private and governmental actors. At the same time, learning Arabic became more prominent around the Mediterranean. The first half of the twentieth century corresponded with the emergence of new media; language was thought of as a cultural product to be exported into new cultural spaces. However, many blind spots remain in the history of linguistic thought and practices, including the forgotten and neglected voices of those involved in learning and teaching Arabic. This volume aims to revisit aspects of this linguistic encounter, including its vision, profile, priorities, trajectories, and practices.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Notes on Transliteration

List of Figures

1. Introduction

2. For God and empire : Arabic at the University of Edinburgh: Its development, character and mission

3. Arab intellectuals in Russia (nineteenth–twentieth century): Teaching, research and politics

4. “I hope you will teach your daughters to read” : Dialogues in Arabic language guides from nineteenth-century Egypt

5. “Like the bleating of a goat” : Teaching learners to pronounce the ‘difficult’ Arabic consonants (1798–1945)

6. The Manual of Palestinean [sic] Arabic: Politics in a late-Ottoman language textbook

7. “Send my regards to those working on the al-Balādhurī manuscript” : The study of Arabic and Islam in interwar Jerusalem as intellectual common ground

8. “Our Greek dignity and our educational autonomy” : Arabic language teaching in Greek schools, 1950s to 1970s

9. Arabic language teaching as a battleground : Colonial and nationalist myths and discourses on Arabic in Morocco

10. When Tamazight was part of the world

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-077981-6

1-04-078411-9

1-003-69279-6

90-485-6040-3

9781003692799

OCLC:

1485003187