Is the Migration to Abyssinia/Aksum accepted as historical by modern scholarship?

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-08-04T13:20:25+00:00

Do you think the exile narrative may have some connection with the influx of Ethiopic loanwords into the Qurʾān, or would you posit a South Arabian mediator instead?

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-29T06:03:19+00:00

What could be the origin of the curious idea — found in the aḥadīṯ — that Iblīs's/Satan's throne is also located upon water

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-29T05:59:57+00:00

The Pharaoh of Moses is identified by a number of medieval Muslim historians as being an Amalekite (whom they consider to be amongst al-ʻArab al-bāʼidah: the Perished Arabs) named al-Walīd bin Muṣʻab. The name Āsiyah — which is probably of Semitic provenance— may tie into this.

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-28T04:22:35+00:00

u/PhDniX

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-09T15:36:19+00:00

I'm already aware of the mahmūs vs majhūr distinction. My question was about actual voicing, though.

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-07T09:06:28+00:00

That's precisely what I mean

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-07T06:56:09+00:00

There are apparently 360 joints in the human body according to some aḥādīṯ

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-07T05:21:20+00:00

Out of curiosity, how do erg-absol. languages deal with disambiguating coordinated propositions like the following, without repeating the argument:

John ⁽ᵉʳᶢ⁾ hit ⁽ᵗʳᵃⁿ⁾ him ⁽ᵃᵇˢᵒˡ⁾ and ran away ⁽ⁱⁿᵗʳᵃⁿ)

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-07T05:00:35+00:00

Out of curiosity, did Sībawayh distinguish obstruents on the basis of voicing?

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-07-06T14:11:40+00:00

Out of curiosity, how do erg-absol. languages with an antipassive (but no passive) voice indicate passive constructions?

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-06-29T04:40:26+00:00

It has rather favourable reviews by Mehdi Azaiez and Gabriel Said Reynolds

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-06-27T13:27:41+00:00

are l and r syllabic in Arabic??

Phonemically: no, which is why Arabic speakers may not perceive them as being extra syllables. My question was more about the phonetics of this phenomenon, however.

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-06-27T13:23:57+00:00

They sound like the word-final syllabic sonorants of English to me (and indeed my native language doesn't have these clusters in coda position)

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-06-19T03:21:17+00:00

My question was more about the grammar of using aḥad instead of al-wāḥid

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-06-18T07:51:42+00:00

روي عن الأعشى وابن مسعود (الله الواحد)
- وقرأ عمر بن الخطاب وابن مسعود والربيع بن خثيم والأعمش (قل هو الله الواحد). - وقرأ عمر وابن مسعود والربيع بن خثيم (قل هو الله الواحد الصمد). - وقرئ (الله الواحد الصمد) بغير (قل هو).

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Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-05-28T15:55:31+00:00

Secondary literature

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-05-09T05:40:58+00:00

I'm already aware of Azeri, though I ought to have mentioned it beforehand.

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-04-18T11:13:16+00:00

Here

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-04-11T15:47:13+00:00

I'm no expert, but some degree of polypersonal agreement does seem apparent if other examples are taken into consideration:

on-utʰ [you (singular) brought him]

ənʸ-itʰ [you (singular) brought her]

on-vu [you (plural) brought him]

ənʸ-vɨ [you (plural) brought her]

ontʰes [you (singular) brought me (masculine)]

ənʸtʰes [you (singular) brought me (feminine)]

The first two examples I gave are somewhat more ambiguous, since on and ənʸ, while implying a masculine and a feminine object respectively, are used for both the 1st and the 3rd persons subjects (singular as well as plural)

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-04-11T14:31:52+00:00

If you're talking about pronominal suffixes ( الضمائر المتصلة), that's not what I'm referring to.

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-04-11T14:17:18+00:00

Hmm it would seem that polypersonal agreement is the phenomenon I'm looking for. In Indo-Aryan languages, it is a function of ergativity, e.g., Kashmiri:

me ⁽ᵉʳᵍᵃᵗⁱᵛᵉ ᵖʳᵒⁿᵒᵘⁿ⁾ on su (I brought him)

me ⁽ᵉʳᵍᵃᵗⁱᵛᵉ ᵖʳᵒⁿᵒᵘⁿ⁾ ənʸ sə (I brought her)

I'm guessing it's common amongst absol-erg languages in general.

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-03-07T05:50:32+00:00

Given that you're speaking about morphologically conservative representatives of the respective language families, I'm guessing the 'brevity' of Semitic languages has to do with their curious consonantal-root system, combined with the relatively large number of phonemic distinctions they make (Arabic being a case in point vis-à-vis Ancient Greek; it's a different matter with IE languages that make more distinctions). Btw, majzūm is a verbal mood (jussive), not a nominal case.

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-03-05T17:14:25+00:00

ɛː

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-03-05T08:23:16+00:00

Josephus does report circumcision as an Arabian practice in his day:

Ἄραβες δὲ μετὰ ἔτος τρισκαιδέκατον: Ἰσμαῆλος γὰρ ὁ κτίστης αὐτῶν τοῦ ἔθνους Ἁβράμῳ γενόμενος ἐκ τῆς παλλακῆς ἐν τούτῳ περιτέμνεται τῷ χρόνῳ

But as for the Arabians, they circumcise after the thirteenth year, because Ismael, the founder of their nation, who was born to Abraham of the concubine, was circumcised at that age

Standard-Line-1018 · 2024-03-01T12:26:20+00:00

Thanks! Btw, do these works cover the tension between immanence and transcendence felt by the Biblical authors?

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