Arabic, Islam, and the Allah lexicon; how language shapes our conception of God.0773457267 Arabic, Islam, and the Allah lexicon; how language shapes our conception of God. Ed. by John A. Morrow. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2006 317 pages $119.95 Hardcover BP166 The Allah lexicon comprises the vast body of spoken and written words and phrases Words and Phrases® A multivolume set of law books published by West Group containing thousands of judicial definitions of words and phrases, arranged alphabetically, from 1658 to the present. in both classical Arabic Classical Arabic, also known as Koranic (or Qur'anic) Arabic, is the form of the Arabic language used in the Qur'an as well as in numerous literary texts from Umayyad and Abbasid times (7th to 9th centuries). and regional variations that include the term Allah, and that serve a wide range of speech, cultural, and religious functions. Morrow (modern languages, Northern State U., South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). ), along with Barbara Castleton and Luis Alberto Vittor (about whom no more is revealed) analyze the frequency and function of the Allah lexicon in the Arabic language Arabic language Ancient Semitic language whose dialects are spoken throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Though Arabic words and proper names are found in Aramaic inscriptions, abundant documentation of the language begins only with the rise of Islam, whose main texts from a sociolinguistic so·ci·o·lin·guis·tics n. (used with a sing. verb) The study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors. so perspective. They also identify the Islamic sources of the terms and phrases, examine issues of transferability, and present a philosophical study of the 99 most beautiful names of Allah. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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