Morpho-Semantic Evidence of Emerging Subjectivity in the Language of the Nahḍah — A Proposal

This article reviews some key concepts of the Arab(ic) Nahḍah with the aim of highlighting the usefulness of a more genuinely linguistic, i.e., grammar- and etymology-oriented approach for a deeper understanding of some basic features of the foundational period of Arab modernity. My contention and s...

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Main Author: Guth, Stephan 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Oriente moderno
Year: 2021, Volume: 101, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-252
Further subjects:B the subject’s agency
B conceptual history
B temporalisation
B Causality
B emerging subjectivity
B Nahḍah
B morpho-semantics
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