This volume presents papers given at the second Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar (Nijmegen, 1987). The subject has many aspects and invites many different approaches, which might roughly be categorized into three main groupings, viz. treatments of individual grammarians, examinations of particular grammatical topics, and analysis of medieval concepts from the perspective of contemporary linguistics.
ARABIC CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN PAST AND PRESENT Everhard Ditters
University of Nijmegen 0. Introduction In his article about the linguistic practice of
the early grammarians Zubayr Sa*di (1971) reports that the ancient Arab linguists
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From 1980 until his death in 1994, the late Dr. Bidwell, almost to the exclusion of all other academic activity, laboured to produce this encyclopaedic work which represents, in the true sense of the word, a unique account of the Arab World from 1798 to the present day in a readily accessible and accurate form. This combination of scrupulous scholarship and first-hand experience makes this work indispensable to students of the Arab World, journalists, diplomats, governments, businessmen, strategic studies and political science specialists and any private individual who has an interest in or is associated in any way with the Arab World.
... he taught an undergraduate course in modern Arab history; he successfully
supervised a steady stream of Ph.D. students; he instituted a thriving seminar
programme; he was a founding editor with Serjeant of Arabian Studies in 1974
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the Question of Palestine 1914–1922 (London, 1977); Z. N. Zeine, The
Emergence of Arab JNationalism (Beirut, 1966); C. E. Dawn, From Ottomanism to
Arabism: Essays on the Origins of Arab Nationalism (Urbana, 1973); R. I. Khalidi,
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Muslim countries are facing serious problems in managing their economic life. Their inherited colonial ways of achieving economic aims are in basic contradiction to certain aspects of Islamic values and intended economic goals. Thus, it is imperative for Muslim countries endeavoring to escape underdevelopment and social injustice to turn to Islamic teaching and the Islamic way of harnessing human potentials to improve economic conditions and ascertain the necessary requirement for effective economic development.Islamic economics, as developed by Muslim jurists and social scientists (fuqaha'), needs to be recast in modern terms and developed further to deal with complex realities of the modern society. This book is one step on the long march to Islamizing the science of economics. It contains a selection of papers from the proceedings of the economic conference held in Cairo in 1988. These papers are a valuable contribution to the cause of modernizing Islamic economics.
The third paper, by Chapra, is centered around economic development strategy.
He explores the differences between what he calls the imported development
strategy and the Islamic development strategy. Imported strategies have been
tried ...
