Magdalen M Connolly

Biographic Data

ID8678427
NAMEMagdalen M Connolly
GIVEN NAMESMagdalen M
FAMILY NAMEConnolly
SIGNATURECONNOLLY M M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • A Survey of Personal-Use Qur'an Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah

    Open AccessMagdalen M Connolly, Nick PosegayARTICLEJournal of Qur'anic Studies2021

    The Cairo Genizah is a repository of texts spanning more than a millennium of Jewish history, including thousands of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts now held in collections around the world. Among these are fragments from at least 25 separate Qur'an manuscripts in Arabic script, all of which lack any traces of Hebrew writing. Their palaeographic and codicological features do not differ from personal Qur'an manuscripts found in other contexts…

  • Splitting Definitives

    Open AccessMagdalen M ConnollyARTICLEJournal of Jewish Languages2021

    This article explores the reasons behind the orthographic practice of representing the definite article in written Judeo-Arabic as an independent entity, a phenomenon which became widespread in Jewish Arabic-speaking communities in the pre-modern era. Commencing with its representation in fifteenth to nineteenth-century Egyptian Judeo-Arabic manuscripts, the orthographic feature is traced back to Judeo-Arabic texts produced in medieval al-Andalus…

  • Adverbial Subordination in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Muslim Middle Arabic Versions of Qiṣṣat al-ğumğuma from the Ottoman Period

    Open AccessMagdalen M ConnollyARTICLEIntellectual History of the…2020

    In examining two Judaeo-Arabic adaptations of Qiṣṣat al-ğumğuma ‘The Story of the Skull’ (Cairo JC 104 and CUL T-S 37.39) alongside two Muslim Middle Arabic versions ( CUL Qq. 173 and BnF Arabe 3655) from the Ottoman period, this paper explores the extent of linguistic similarities and divergences on the level of adverbial subordination, and the means through which these are expressed. It questions the long-established methodological boundaries i…

  • ‘An Arabic Qurʾān, That You Might Understand’

    Open AccessMagdalen M Connolly, Nick PosegayARTICLEJournal of Islamic Manuscripts2020

    The Arabic-script Qurʾān fragments of the Cairo genizah collections have not yet drawn much interest among Arabic and genizah scholars. This paper aims to bring them to the attention of a broader audience by presenting the palaeographic features (§ 3) and vocalisation systems (§ 4) of eleven Arabic-script Qurʾān fragments from the Cambridge University Library’s Taylor-Schechter Arabic collection. While the focus of this paper is the physical appe…

  • ‘The Tale of the Cairene and the Countryman’

    Open AccessMagdalen Connolly, Magdalen M ConnollyARTICLEJournal of Arabic and Islamic…2020

    This short article offers a revised transcription and English translation of Qiṣṣat al-maṣrī wa-l-rīfī ‘The Tale of the Cairene and the Countryman’ as found in AIU VII.C.16, with grammatical notes. This new edition of the text demonstrates that Goitein’s (1972) rendering of the manuscript concealed significant orthographic features, which indicate a later date of composition than Goitein proposed. Since its publication, Goitein’s (1972) edition o…

  • Code-switching in Judaeo-Arabic documents from the Cairo Geniza

    Esther-Miriam Wagner, Magdalen Connolly et al.ARTICLEMultilingua2018References: 2

    This paper investigates code-switching and script-switching in medieval documents from the Cairo Geniza, written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script), Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Legal documents regularly show a macaronic style of Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew, while in letters code-switching from Judaeo-Arabic to Hebrew is tied in with various socio-linguistic circumstances and indicates how markedly Jewish the sort of text is. Merchan…