Jews in the Medieval Muslim World: Language

PART I: RESOURCES

LANGUAGE RESEARCH, DICTIONARIES, GRAMMARS

Jewish Language Research Website:

http://www.jewish-languages.org/judeo-arabic.html

Joshua Blau. The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judaeo-Arabic. Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1999.

Joshua Blau. A Grammar of Medieval Judaeo-Arabic. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1995 [Hebrew].

Joshua Blau. Judaeo-Arabic Literature: Select Texts. Magnes, 1980. [an anthology of texts keyed to Blau’s
grammar.]

Joshua Blau. A Dictionary of Mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic Texts. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, 2006.

Joshua Blau. A Handbook of Early Middle Arabic.

Joshua Blau. A Grammar of Christian Arabic, based mainly on South-Palestinian texts from the first millennium. 

3 vols. (Louvain, 1966-).

Federico Corriente, A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic.

Reinhart Dozy. Supplement aux Dictionnaires Arabes:

http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/showproduct.aspx?isbn=978-1-59333-518-2

Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas, A Greek and Arabic Lexicon.

I. Friedlander. Arabisch-deutsches Lexikon zum Sprachgebrauch des Maimonides. Ein Nachtrag zu den arabischen 

Lexicis. Frankfurt a. M., 1902.

Jastrow, Morris. A Dictionary of the Targumim, The Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature.
New York, 1903.

Klatzkin, Otsar ha-munahim ha-philosophim.

Lane, Edward William. An Arabic-English Lexicon. 8 vols. London, 1863-93.

http://www.studyquran.co.uk/LLhome.htm

Ratzaby, Yehudah. A Dictionary of Judaeo-Arabic in Rav Saadia’s Tafsīr. Rama Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 

1985 [Hebrew].

Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Edited by J. M. Cowan. Ithaca, NY, 1994.

http://archive.org/details/Dict_Wehr.pdf

Wright’s Grammar:

http://www.ghazali.org/arabic/WrightArabicGrammarVol1.pdf

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