Ewald Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ewald Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ewald |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Giessen School of Theology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Die Henne oder das Ei? azzo oder -zo? Weitere Spekulationen zu einem pronominalen Problem des Harari
There is no consensus among Ethiopists on the question of whether the Harari enclitic possessive suffix 3sg. m. -zo is an eroded form of the personal pronoun azzo (Appleyard, Huehnergard and Pat-El) or whether azzo emerged from -zo by being prefixed with another morpheme (Cerulli, Leslau). The present article attempts a solution to this problem by considering it against the background of the overall development of the pronominal system of Harari …
Ḥusn at-takhalluṣ bei Ibn an-Nabīh und Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk
Ḥusn al-takhalluṣ was the term that medieval Arabic literary critics used for the rhetorical device by which Arabic poets connected the different themes of the polythematic qaṣīdah. In early times poets often dispensed with a transition. In the ʿAbbāsid period however, the poets bestowed more effort on the shaping of ḥusn al-takhalluṣ. They also had to adjust it to changes in the nasīb , the opening part of the qaṣīdah. The article shows how two …
ʿAlā maḏhab al-Ḥamdawī: Ibn ar-Rūmīs ṭailasān-Gedichte
The Baṣran poet al-Ḥamdawī (fl. ca. 816–884) composed about 50 mocking epigrams on the worn-out ṭailasān (wrap), given to him by his patron, Ibn Ḥarb. These verses helped al-Ḥamdawī to some fame, the ṭailasān of Ibn Ḥarb however, became more famous. Al-Ḥamdawī found many imitators, the most prominent of whom was Ibn ar-Rūmī. The article presents Ibn ar-Rūmī’s ṭailasān-poems in text and translation, and investigates as to how far Ibn ar-Rūmī modif…
Es blitzt schon wieder – dieses Mal bei aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā
Aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 1044) included in his Dīwān nine poems on the lightning. Although he removed in these poems the lightning scene from its classical position in the polythematic qaṣīda, he maintained in most of them its combination with the motif of remembrance. So, his poems are not completely monothematic like the “modern” descriptive (waṣf) poems. Also, in some other respect, the Šarīf combines the old with the new. Seven of the poems ar…
Verse über Verse. Wie Ibn al-Ḥaǧǧāǧ seine eigene Poesie betrachtet
Several Arabic poets composed verses on poetry in general, and on their own poetry in particular. Some of these metapoetic reflections already have been of interest to the Arabists, and became the subject of literary studies (e.g. Lyons, Schoeler, Fakhreddine, McKinney). If I again took up the topic with the focus on Ibn al-Ḥaǧǧāǧ (d. 1001), so it is because he referred to his own poetry much more often than other poets did. He had reason for thi…
Betrachtungen zu Harariner grammatischen Termini
In 1986, Abdurahmān Maḥamad Qorām published a Harari Grammar which made him the first Harari to describe his mother tongue in the language, itself. For this purpose he had to invent a grammatical terminology in Harari. 26 years later, Ali Naji, also a native speaker, used in his book on Harari grammar almost the same terms. That shows that Qorām’s terminology has won acceptance in the meantime.The present article investigates the means which Qorā…
Ṣafīaddīn al-Ḥillīs Muwaššaḥ muḍammin
The article studies a muwassaḥ of Ṣafīaddīn al-Ḥillī in which he includes a short love-poem of Abū Nuwās. He does this by applying the rules of taḫmīs to muwassaḥ. Al-Ḥillī embellishes the muwassaḥ through several rhetorical devices, although he uses only those which could easily be recognised, even if the muwassaḥ is sung. It seems that al-Ḥillī intended a wide-spread distribution of the poem
Manfred Ullmann: Der Neger in der Bildersprache der arabischen Dichter
Review
Hussein Ahmed: Islam in Nineteenth Century Wallo, Ethiopia. Revival, Reform and Reaction
Review
Patrick Desplat: Heilige Stadt – Stadt der Heiligen. Ambivalenzen und Kontroversen islamischer Heiligkeit in Harar, Äthiopien
Review
Harari und Ostgurage
The close relationship between Harari and the East Gurage languages Silṭe, Wolane and Zāy was established already in 1931 by Marcel Cohen, and then confirmed by Wolf Leslau, Robert Hetzron and others. The present article will elaborate this relationship on the basis of the new material on the Eastern Gurage languages presented by Wolf Leslau, Ernst-August Gutt and Ronny Meyer in the last decades. Phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic…
Ein amharischer Atlas aus Malta
In August 2008 Professor Dr. Hans H. Kaminsky of the Institute of History of the University of Giessen, gave me an Amharic atlas, printed in Malta, which he had bought several years ago, at the Giessen flee-market. The atlas is now in the possession of the Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik of the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg. The article places the atlas into the historical context of the educational efforts of German protestant m…
Das Ablautsystem des B- und D-Typs im Harari und Ostgurage
The verbal system of the East Gurage-Harari-Group inside the southern Ethio-Semitic languages, underwent a special development: The lengthening of the second consonant, the characteristic feature of B-type verbs in the other Semitic languages, totally got lost. The consequence was, that the palatal vowel, which we find already in the Gǝʿǝz imperfect yǝfeṣṣǝm, became the only characteristic of the B-type. It spread over all three verbal forms (per…
Afrikanische Handschriften, II: Islamische Handschriften aus Aethiopien
Grundzuge der klassischen arabischen Dichtung
Legende und Geschichte: Der Fatḥ Madīnat Harar von Yaḥyā b. Naṣrallāh
Harari-Texte in Arabischer Schrift
Legende und Geschichte: Der Fath Madinat Harar von Yahya Nasrallah
Der Diwan des Abu Nuwas. Teil II
Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung von Druck-schriften in den islamischen Sprachen (arabisch, persisch, türkisch): Auf Grund von Beratungen eines Gremiums von Fachbibliothekaren
Studi orientalistici in onore di Giorgio Levi Della Vida
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Studi orientalistici in onore di Giorgio Levi Della Vida
Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung von Druck-schriften in den islamischen Sprachen (arabisch, persisch, türkisch): Auf Grund von Beratungen eines Gremiums von Fachbibliothekaren
Der Diwan des Abu Nuwas. Teil II
Legende und Geschichte: Der Fath Madinat Harar von Yahya Nasrallah
Harari-Texte in Arabischer Schrift
Legende und Geschichte: Der Fatḥ Madīnat Harar von Yaḥyā b. Naṣrallāh
Grundzuge der klassischen arabischen Dichtung
Afrikanische Handschriften, II: Islamische Handschriften aus Aethiopien
Ein amharischer Atlas aus Malta
In August 2008 Professor Dr. Hans H. Kaminsky of the Institute of History of the University of Giessen, gave me an Amharic atlas, printed in Malta, which he had bought several years ago, at the Giessen flee-market. The atlas is now in the possession of the Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik of the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg. The article places the atlas into the historical context of the educational efforts of German protestant m…
Das Ablautsystem des B- und D-Typs im Harari und Ostgurage
The verbal system of the East Gurage-Harari-Group inside the southern Ethio-Semitic languages, underwent a special development: The lengthening of the second consonant, the characteristic feature of B-type verbs in the other Semitic languages, totally got lost. The consequence was, that the palatal vowel, which we find already in the Gǝʿǝz imperfect yǝfeṣṣǝm, became the only characteristic of the B-type. It spread over all three verbal forms (per…
Harari und Ostgurage
The close relationship between Harari and the East Gurage languages Silṭe, Wolane and Zāy was established already in 1931 by Marcel Cohen, and then confirmed by Wolf Leslau, Robert Hetzron and others. The present article will elaborate this relationship on the basis of the new material on the Eastern Gurage languages presented by Wolf Leslau, Ernst-August Gutt and Ronny Meyer in the last decades. Phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic…
Ṣafīaddīn al-Ḥillīs Muwaššaḥ muḍammin
The article studies a muwassaḥ of Ṣafīaddīn al-Ḥillī in which he includes a short love-poem of Abū Nuwās. He does this by applying the rules of taḫmīs to muwassaḥ. Al-Ḥillī embellishes the muwassaḥ through several rhetorical devices, although he uses only those which could easily be recognised, even if the muwassaḥ is sung. It seems that al-Ḥillī intended a wide-spread distribution of the poem
Manfred Ullmann: Der Neger in der Bildersprache der arabischen Dichter
Review
Hussein Ahmed: Islam in Nineteenth Century Wallo, Ethiopia. Revival, Reform and Reaction
Review
Patrick Desplat: Heilige Stadt – Stadt der Heiligen. Ambivalenzen und Kontroversen islamischer Heiligkeit in Harar, Äthiopien
Review
Verse über Verse. Wie Ibn al-Ḥaǧǧāǧ seine eigene Poesie betrachtet
Several Arabic poets composed verses on poetry in general, and on their own poetry in particular. Some of these metapoetic reflections already have been of interest to the Arabists, and became the subject of literary studies (e.g. Lyons, Schoeler, Fakhreddine, McKinney). If I again took up the topic with the focus on Ibn al-Ḥaǧǧāǧ (d. 1001), so it is because he referred to his own poetry much more often than other poets did. He had reason for thi…
Betrachtungen zu Harariner grammatischen Termini
In 1986, Abdurahmān Maḥamad Qorām published a Harari Grammar which made him the first Harari to describe his mother tongue in the language, itself. For this purpose he had to invent a grammatical terminology in Harari. 26 years later, Ali Naji, also a native speaker, used in his book on Harari grammar almost the same terms. That shows that Qorām’s terminology has won acceptance in the meantime.The present article investigates the means which Qorā…
ʿAlā maḏhab al-Ḥamdawī: Ibn ar-Rūmīs ṭailasān-Gedichte
The Baṣran poet al-Ḥamdawī (fl. ca. 816–884) composed about 50 mocking epigrams on the worn-out ṭailasān (wrap), given to him by his patron, Ibn Ḥarb. These verses helped al-Ḥamdawī to some fame, the ṭailasān of Ibn Ḥarb however, became more famous. Al-Ḥamdawī found many imitators, the most prominent of whom was Ibn ar-Rūmī. The article presents Ibn ar-Rūmī’s ṭailasān-poems in text and translation, and investigates as to how far Ibn ar-Rūmī modif…
Es blitzt schon wieder – dieses Mal bei aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā
Aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 1044) included in his Dīwān nine poems on the lightning. Although he removed in these poems the lightning scene from its classical position in the polythematic qaṣīda, he maintained in most of them its combination with the motif of remembrance. So, his poems are not completely monothematic like the “modern” descriptive (waṣf) poems. Also, in some other respect, the Šarīf combines the old with the new. Seven of the poems ar…
Ḥusn at-takhalluṣ bei Ibn an-Nabīh und Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk
Ḥusn al-takhalluṣ was the term that medieval Arabic literary critics used for the rhetorical device by which Arabic poets connected the different themes of the polythematic qaṣīdah. In early times poets often dispensed with a transition. In the ʿAbbāsid period however, the poets bestowed more effort on the shaping of ḥusn al-takhalluṣ. They also had to adjust it to changes in the nasīb , the opening part of the qaṣīdah. The article shows how two …
Die Henne oder das Ei? azzo oder -zo? Weitere Spekulationen zu einem pronominalen Problem des Harari
There is no consensus among Ethiopists on the question of whether the Harari enclitic possessive suffix 3sg. m. -zo is an eroded form of the personal pronoun azzo (Appleyard, Huehnergard and Pat-El) or whether azzo emerged from -zo by being prefixed with another morpheme (Cerulli, Leslau). The present article attempts a solution to this problem by considering it against the background of the overall development of the pronominal system of Harari …
Philosophy (17 works) · African history and culture analysis (13 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (8 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works) · Arabic (4 works)