Fokelien Kootstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 708803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fokelien Kootstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fokelien |
| FAMILY NAME | Kootstra |
| SIGNATURE | KOOTSTRA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1883-1542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
For I am Your Sister, For We are Your Siblings: Gendered Dynamics and Vernacular Rhetoric in Arabic Private Letters of Request on Papyrus
The corpus of Arabic papyri contains many letters initiated by, or addressed to, women. However, this material has been under-utilized by linguists and historians to investigate how concepts of gender were constructed, performed, and potentially exploited in the early Islamic period. In this article, I analyze the arguments put forward in eight private letters of request from a brother and sister addressed to their brother. Relying on the concept…
“Hurry to send it, my lord, my love”: Politeness strategies in eight Arabic private letters of request from the ninth century ad
This article investigates politeness strategies in eight ninth-century Arabic private letters of request from the Fayyoum, in Egypt. The large corpus of Arabic letters written on papyrus that is preserved and edited so far, forms a rich resource for those interested in pragmatics. While historical Greek and Latin ( Dickey 2010 , 2012 , 2016b ), English ( Kohnen 2008 ; Ridealgh and Jucker 2019 ; Jucker 2020 ; Groot 2024 ) and Dutch ( Rutten and Va…
The ẓll of ancient Dadān: Ritual and documentary practice
In and around the site of ancient Dadān (modern‐day al‐ʿUlā), located in the Northwest of the Arabian Peninsula, many inscriptions are found in the local North Arabian script variety called Dadanitic (6th–1st centuries BC). Many of the Dadanitic inscriptions mention the ẓll ceremony for the main local deity Ḏūġābat, both unique to Dadān. While the ẓll inscriptions are the most common type of monumental inscriptions in the Dadanitic script, their …
Quantitative Approach to Variation in Case Inflection in Arabic Documentary Papyri: The Case of ʾab in Construct
The Arabic documentary papyri (seventh–ninth centuries Ce) are precious wit- nesses to the day-to-day written Arabic of their time. These texts exhibit consider- able variation in grammar and orthography. Classical Arabic and the prescriptive attitudes of the Arabic grammarians traditionally provided the lens through which the earliest documents of the Islamic period have been read. Since Classical Ara- bic was only fully canonized in the tenth c…
Dadanitic b-rʾy as referring to a local calendar
This article will discuss the dating formula in the Dadanitic inscriptions. So far, some of these have been interpreted to refer not only to the reign of the local king (mlk lḥyn), but also to another political official called rʾy. The article will discuss the merit of this interpretation based on both the questionable etymology of the term rʾy and the problematic interpretation of the terms following this word as personal names. Instead, a new i…
The Taymanitic onomasticon
The Taymanitic inscriptions, written in the c . mid‐sixth century BCE , largely consist of personal names. While personal names cannot inform us directly on the language or ethnicity of their bearers, name‐giving practices do reflect a choice made by the person bestowing it on someone. This article will focus on the personal names of the inscriptions; what they can tell us about their linguistic and cultural background, and how this might inform …
The ẓll of ancient Dadān: Ritual and documentary practice
In and around the site of ancient Dadān (modern‐day al‐ʿUlā), located in the Northwest of the Arabian Peninsula, many inscriptions are found in the local North Arabian script variety called Dadanitic (6th–1st centuries BC). Many of the Dadanitic inscriptions mention the ẓll ceremony for the main local deity Ḏūġābat, both unique to Dadān. While the ẓll inscriptions are the most common type of monumental inscriptions in the Dadanitic script, their …
Quantitative Approach to Variation in Case Inflection in Arabic Documentary Papyri: The Case of ʾab in Construct
The Arabic documentary papyri (seventh–ninth centuries Ce) are precious wit- nesses to the day-to-day written Arabic of their time. These texts exhibit consider- able variation in grammar and orthography. Classical Arabic and the prescriptive attitudes of the Arabic grammarians traditionally provided the lens through which the earliest documents of the Islamic period have been read. Since Classical Ara- bic was only fully canonized in the tenth c…
Dadanitic b-rʾy as referring to a local calendar
This article will discuss the dating formula in the Dadanitic inscriptions. So far, some of these have been interpreted to refer not only to the reign of the local king (mlk lḥyn), but also to another political official called rʾy. The article will discuss the merit of this interpretation based on both the questionable etymology of the term rʾy and the problematic interpretation of the terms following this word as personal names. Instead, a new i…
The Taymanitic onomasticon
The Taymanitic inscriptions, written in the c . mid‐sixth century BCE , largely consist of personal names. While personal names cannot inform us directly on the language or ethnicity of their bearers, name‐giving practices do reflect a choice made by the person bestowing it on someone. This article will focus on the personal names of the inscriptions; what they can tell us about their linguistic and cultural background, and how this might inform …
Dadanitic b-rʾy as referring to a local calendar
This article will discuss the dating formula in the Dadanitic inscriptions. So far, some of these have been interpreted to refer not only to the reign of the local king (mlk lḥyn), but also to another political official called rʾy. The article will discuss the merit of this interpretation based on both the questionable etymology of the term rʾy and the problematic interpretation of the terms following this word as personal names. Instead, a new i…
The ẓll of ancient Dadān: Ritual and documentary practice
In and around the site of ancient Dadān (modern‐day al‐ʿUlā), located in the Northwest of the Arabian Peninsula, many inscriptions are found in the local North Arabian script variety called Dadanitic (6th–1st centuries BC). Many of the Dadanitic inscriptions mention the ẓll ceremony for the main local deity Ḏūġābat, both unique to Dadān. While the ẓll inscriptions are the most common type of monumental inscriptions in the Dadanitic script, their …
Quantitative Approach to Variation in Case Inflection in Arabic Documentary Papyri: The Case of ʾab in Construct
The Arabic documentary papyri (seventh–ninth centuries Ce) are precious wit- nesses to the day-to-day written Arabic of their time. These texts exhibit consider- able variation in grammar and orthography. Classical Arabic and the prescriptive attitudes of the Arabic grammarians traditionally provided the lens through which the earliest documents of the Islamic period have been read. Since Classical Ara- bic was only fully canonized in the tenth c…
For I am Your Sister, For We are Your Siblings: Gendered Dynamics and Vernacular Rhetoric in Arabic Private Letters of Request on Papyrus
The corpus of Arabic papyri contains many letters initiated by, or addressed to, women. However, this material has been under-utilized by linguists and historians to investigate how concepts of gender were constructed, performed, and potentially exploited in the early Islamic period. In this article, I analyze the arguments put forward in eight private letters of request from a brother and sister addressed to their brother. Relying on the concept…
“Hurry to send it, my lord, my love”: Politeness strategies in eight Arabic private letters of request from the ninth century ad
This article investigates politeness strategies in eight ninth-century Arabic private letters of request from the Fayyoum, in Egypt. The large corpus of Arabic letters written on papyrus that is preserved and edited so far, forms a rich resource for those interested in pragmatics. While historical Greek and Latin ( Dickey 2010 , 2012 , 2016b ), English ( Kohnen 2008 ; Ridealgh and Jucker 2019 ; Jucker 2020 ; Groot 2024 ) and Dutch ( Rutten and Va…
Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (4 works) · Arabic (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Brother (2 works)