Arabic in Hebrew Letters: An introduction to ‘Judeo-Arabic’

Further Readings

Blau, Joshua: The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judaeo-Arabic: A Study of the Origins of Middle Arabic, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi 1999.

Blau, Joshua: A Handbook of Early Middle Arabic, Jerusalem: Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation 2002.

Blau, Joshua; Hopkins, Simon: “On Early Judaeo-Arabic Orthography”, in: Zeitfschrift für Arabische Linguistik 12 (1984), p. 9–27.

Blau, Joshua; Hopkins, Simon: “Judaeo-Arabic Papyri. Collected, Edited translated and commented”, in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 9 (1987), p. 87–160.

Connolly, Magdalen M. “‘The Tale of the Cairene and the Countryman’: A Late Judaeo-Arabic Narrative Revisited”, in: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 20 (2020), p. 91–104.

Connolly, Magdalen: “أصل مصطلح ‘العربية اليهودية’: هل يجب أن نستمر في استخدام هذا المصطلح اليوم؟ [The Origin of the Term ‘Judaeo-Arabic’: Should We Still Use It Today?]”, Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures Blog, 8 December 2023, URL: https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/the-origin-of-the-term-judaeo-arabic/.

Hary, Benjamin: “Judeo-Arabic in the Arabic-Speaking World”, in: Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present, ed. by Benjamin Hary and Sarah Bunin Benor, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2019, p. 35–69.

Khan, Geoffrey: “Judaeo-Arabic”, in: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, ed. by Kees Versteegh et al., Leiden: Brill 2011, https://doi.org/10.1163/1570-6699_eall_EALL_COM_vol2_0067.

Khan, Geoffrey: “Middle Arabic“, in: The Semitic Languages. An international handbook, ed. by Stefan Weninger et al., Berlin: de Gruyter 2011, p. 817–835.

Khan, Geoffrey: “Judeo-Arabic”, in: Handbook of Jewish Languages, ed. by Lily Kahn and Aaron D. Rubin, Leiden/Boston: Brill 2016, p. 22–63.

Polliack, Meira: The Karaite tradition of Arabic Bible translation. A linguistic and exegetical study of Karaite translation of the Pentateuch from the tenth and eleventh centuries CE, Leiden: Brill 1997.

Polliack, Meira: “Medieval Karaite Methods of Translating Biblical Narrative into Arabic”, in: Vetus Testamentum 48:3 (1998), p. 375–398.

Polliack, Meira: “Arabic Bible Translations”, in: Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed. by Geoffrey Khan et al., Leiden: Brill, 2013, https://doi.org/10.1163/2212-4241_ehll_EHLL_COM_00000671 Web.

Shohat, Ella: “The Question of Judeo-Arabic”, in: The Arab Studies Journal 23:1 (2015), p. 14–76.

Shohat, Ella: “The Invention of Judeo-Arabic. Nation, Partition and the Linguistic Imaginary”, in: interventions 19:2 ( 2017), p. 1–48.

Shohat, Ella: “‘Judeo-Arabic’ and the separationist thesis”, in: Palestine/Israel Review, Vol. 1:1 (2024), doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/pir.1.1.0002.

Stillman, Norman A.: “Judeo-Arabic – History and Linguistic Description”, in: In Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, ed. by Norman A. Stillman et al., Leiden: Brill 2010; https://doi.org/10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_COM_0012320.

Versteegh, Kees: “Middle Arabic”, in: id.: The Arabic Language,  Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2014, p. 152–171.