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Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic E E -M W DITED BY STHER IRIAM AGNER 9 A HANDBOOK AND READER OF OTTOMAN ARABIC A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic Edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner https://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2021 Esther-Miriam Wagner. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt the text and to make commercial use of the text providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Esther-Miriam Wagner (ed.), A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic. Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 9. 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ISBN Paperback: 9781783749416 Semitic Languages and Cultures 9. ISBN Hardback: 9781783749423 ISSN (print): 2632-6906 ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783749430 ISSN (digital): 2632-6914 DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0208 Cover images: Upper left, T-S 10J16.26 (Hebrew script); upper right, CUL Or.1081.2.75.2 (Syriac script), both reproduced with kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Image below, from box HCA 32/212 from the The National Archives. Cover design: Anna Gatti CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...................................................................... xi I. HANDBOOK Michiel Leezenberg 1. Vernacularisation in the Ottoman Empire: Is Arabic the Exception that Proves the Rule? ..................... 1 Necmettin Kızılkaya 2. From Means to Goal: Auxiliary Disciplines in the Ottoman Madrasa Curriculum ....................................... 23 Guy Burak 3. On the Order of the Sciences for He Who Wants to Learn Them ............................................................... 39 Guy Burak 4. Rumi Authors, the Arabic Historiographical Tradition, and the Ottoman Dawla/Devlet ..................... 43 Christopher D. Bahl 5. Arabic Grammar Books in Ottoman Istanbul: The South Asian Connection ................................................ 65 E. Khayyat 6. Bastards and Arabs .................................................... 87 II. READER Dotan Arad and Esther-Miriam Wagner 1. Bodl. Ms. Heb. C. 72/18: A Letter by Isaac Bayt ʿAṭṭān to Moses B. Judah (1480s) ................................ 143 vi Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic Benjamin Hary 2. The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community .................................................................. 149 Dotan Arad 3. Appointment Deed of a Cantor in the Karaite Community, Cairo (1575) ............................................ 155 Naḥem Ilan 4. Aharon Garish, Metsaḥ Aharon ................................. 161 Humphrey Taman Davies 5. Kitāb Hazz al-Quḥūf (1600s) ..................................... 173 Boris Liebrenz and Kristina Richardson 6. A Weaver’s Notebook from Aleppo (10th/16th century) ....................................................................... 193 Michael Erdman 7. Selections from Arabic Garshūnī Manuscripts in the British Library ........................................................ 197 Liesbeth Zack 8. Excerpt from Yūsuf al-Maġribī’s Dafʿ al-iṣr ʿan kalām ahl Miṣr (1606) .................................................. 209 Jérôme Lentin 9. Lebanon: Chronicle of al-Ṣafadī (early 17th century [?]) ................................................................. 227 Werner Diem 10. A Jew’s Testimony Regarding a Statement Made in His Presence by a Muslim, Testified on Monday 20th Kislev 5418 (1657) .............................................. 233 Contents vii Werner Diem 11. A Jew’s Testimony Regarding a Statement Made in His Presence by a Muslim (1681) ............................ 237 Omer Shafran 12. A Basra Passover Haggadah with Judaeo-Arabic Translation (ca. 1700) ................................................. 239 Ghayde Ghraowi 13. Qahwa ‘Coffee’ (16th–17th centuries) .................... 243 Jérôme Lentin 14. Egypt: Damurdāšī’s Chronicle of Egypt (first half of 18th century) .......................................................... 251 Ani Avetisyan 15. Matenadaran Collection MS No.1751: A Medical Work (1726) ................................................................ 255 Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed 16. A Clerical Letter by Rafael al-Ṭūḵī from the Prize Papers Collections (1758) ............................................ 261 Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed 17. A Christian Mercantile Letter from the Prize Papers Collections (1759) ............................................ 267 Feras Krimsti 18. Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb, Riḥlat al-Shammās Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb ilā baldat Istanbūl (1764/65) .......................... 275 Jérôme Lentin 19. Syria 1: Chronicle of Ibn al-Ṣiddīq (1768) ............. 283 viii Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic Ahmed Ech-Charfi 20. A Letter Transmitted by Ambassador Hajj Mahdī Bargash from Sultan Muḥammad Bin ʿAbdallah to Sultan Abdul Ḥamīd (1789 CE) .................................... 289 Boris Liebrenz 21. Arab Merchant Letters from the Gotha Collection of Arabic Manuscripts .................................................. 293 Matthew Dudley 22. A Judaeo-Arabic Letter from the Prize Papers Collection, HCA 32/1208/126.2 (1796) ...................... 307 Olav Ørum 23. The Cairo-Ramla Manuscripts, or the Ramle KAR, 13 (1800s) .......................................................... 315 Magdalen M. Connolly 24. A 19th-Century Judaeo-Arabic Folk Narrative ....... 333 Jérôme Lentin 25. Libya 1: Ḥasan al-Faqīh Ḥasan’s Chronicle Al-Yawmiyyāt al-Lībiyya (early 19th century) ............... 349 Jérôme Lentin 26. Libya 2: Letter from Ġūma al-Maḥmūdī (1795– 1858) to ʿAzmī Bēk, Daftardār of the ʾIyāla (Province) of Tripoli (undated) .................................... 353 Geoffrey Khan and Esther-Miriam Wagner 27. T-S NS 99.38 (1809) .............................................. 359 Esther-Miriam Wagner and Mohamed Ahmed 28. Rylands Genizah Collection A 803 (1825) ............. 365 Contents ix Jérôme Lentin 29. Syria 2: Chronicle of Muḥammad Saʿīd al-ʾUsṭuwānī (1840–1861) ........................................... 371 Jérôme Lentin 30. Arabia: A Letter from Abdallah Ḥiṣānī to ʿAbdallah Bāšā (1855) ................................................. 375 Liesbeth Zack 31. Excerpts from Yaʿqūb Ṣanūʿ’s Abū Naḍḍāra Zarʾa and ʿAbd Allāh al-Nadīm’s al-Ustāḏ ............................. 381 George Kiraz 32. A Disgruntled Bishop: A Garshūnī Letter from Bishop Dinḥā of Midyat to Patriarch Peter III.............. 399 Alex Bellem and G. Rex Smith 33. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Jarādī: Sīrat al-Ḵawāja al-ʾAkram al-Marḥūm Harmān al-ʾAlmānī ..................... 415 Esther-Miriam Wagner 34. Ora ve-Simḥa (1917) ............................................. 427 Charles Häberl 35. A ‘Mandæo-Arabic’ Letter from Lady Drower’s Correspondence ........................................................... 431 Tania María García-Arévalo 36. An Anecdote about Juḥā (1920s) .......................... 441 REFERENCES ....................................................................... 445
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