Mohammed Sawaie
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mohammed Sawaie plays a role.
Articles
1990 An Aspect of 19th-Century Arabic Lexicography: The modernizing role and contribution of Faris al-Shidyak (1804?-1887) History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 157–171 | Chapter
1987 Jurjī Zaydān (1861-1914): A Modernist in Arabic Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 14:3, pp. 283–304 | Article
This article explores Jurjī Zaydān’s contribution to questions that the Arabic language was confronted with at the turn of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. These questions pertained to the capability of Arabic as a medium of communication, its appropriateness to express new ideas,… read more