Abdullah Hassan Al-Saqqaf
Biographic Data
| ID | 9340369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdullah Hassan Al-Saqqaf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdullah Hassan |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Saqqaf |
| SIGNATURE | AL-SAQQAF A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dhofar University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Quest of a Discipline
From the days of René Wellek s Crisis of Comparative Literature (1959) through the beginning of the twenty-first century that saw Gayatri Spivak s provocative Death of a Discipline (2003), Comparative Literature as an academic discipline has endured like no other. This pioneering volume, Quest of a Discipline, offers challenging new directions to this field urging the readers to see the practice of Comparative Literature as a quest. It showcases …
Arabic Literature in Diaspora
INTRODUCTION The famous Orientalist and explorer, Sir Richard Burton wrote: ‘It is generally said that the sun does not rise upon a land that does not contain a man from Hadhramawt.’ (Burton 58) This essay might be considered the preliminary phase of a comprehensive scheme to study Arabic literature in diaspora. Here, I deal with the literature of Hadhrami Arabic, the variety of Arabic spoken in Hadhramawt vis-a-vis the regions to which the Hadhr…
The Linguistics of Loanwords in Hadrami Arabic
The aim of this paper is to explore loanwords in Hadrami Arabic (Yemen). Most of these words, which are now diminishing due to the social and economical development in the region, reflect some stage of bilingualism when the Hadram's (natives of Hadramawt, Yemen) migrated to different parts of the world. The donor languages range from the tongues of the Indian subcontinent to the languages of the Malay archipelago, to Swahili and English. These lo…
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The Linguistics of Loanwords in Hadrami Arabic
The aim of this paper is to explore loanwords in Hadrami Arabic (Yemen). Most of these words, which are now diminishing due to the social and economical development in the region, reflect some stage of bilingualism when the Hadram's (natives of Hadramawt, Yemen) migrated to different parts of the world. The donor languages range from the tongues of the Indian subcontinent to the languages of the Malay archipelago, to Swahili and English. These lo…
Quest of a Discipline
From the days of René Wellek s Crisis of Comparative Literature (1959) through the beginning of the twenty-first century that saw Gayatri Spivak s provocative Death of a Discipline (2003), Comparative Literature as an academic discipline has endured like no other. This pioneering volume, Quest of a Discipline, offers challenging new directions to this field urging the readers to see the practice of Comparative Literature as a quest. It showcases …
Arabic Literature in Diaspora
INTRODUCTION The famous Orientalist and explorer, Sir Richard Burton wrote: ‘It is generally said that the sun does not rise upon a land that does not contain a man from Hadhramawt.’ (Burton 58) This essay might be considered the preliminary phase of a comprehensive scheme to study Arabic literature in diaspora. Here, I deal with the literature of Hadhrami Arabic, the variety of Arabic spoken in Hadhramawt vis-a-vis the regions to which the Hadhr…
Arabic (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (1 work)