@article{MTMT:36384864, title = {The Intricacies of Mediaeval Arabic Gospel Quotations. A Case Study of the Kitāb al-Maǧdal}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36384864}, author = {Gacsályi-Tóth, Dénes Ádám}, doi = {10.58513/ARABIST.2025.48.1}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {48}, unique-id = {36384864}, issn = {0239-1619}, abstract = {This article examines the Mediaeval Christian Arabic compendium Kitāb al-Maǧdal from a new perspective. While its theology and language have previously been studied, its hundreds of biblical quotations have not yet been analysed. Scholars working on Mediaeval Christian Arabic texts are aware that these often quote the Bible freely, however, no study has yet undertaken a thorough linguistic examination of Arabic biblical quotations or compared them systematically with the various versions of the Bible (though a few comparable studies will be referenced in the Conclusions). One difficulty in pursuing such an endeavour lies in the fact that numerous Arabic Bible translations circulated in the Mediaeval Middle East, and not all have yet been mapped. This article seeks to identify the possible source(s) of the quotations found in one chapter of the Maǧdal, while also shedding further light on the complexity of Mediaeval Arabic Bible translations.}, year = {2025}, pages = {1-21} } @article{MTMT:36384872, title = {Abraham Shalom Yahuda’s German Assistants. The Cases of Hans Kindermann and Hans L. Gottschalk}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36384872}, author = {Schmidtke, Sabine}, doi = {10.58513/ARABIST.2025.48.3}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {48}, unique-id = {36384872}, issn = {0239-1619}, abstract = {Over the past decade or two, the formation, provenance, and history of manuscript collections around the world have become a focus of scholarly attention. This trend has prompted numerous studies of the Jerusalem-born cosmopolitan Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877–1951), arguably the most important seller of Islamic manu¬scripts to Western collectors and libraries during the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century. One area that has not been studied is Yahuda’s assistants, whom he employed to write descriptions of the manuscripts in his possession. No attempt has been made to identify the individuals who worked for Yahuda at different times or to distinguish between the various languages (Arabic, German, English, French) and hands in which the extant catalog slips were written. It appears that over the years Yahuda employed a number of Egyptian and German scholars, some of whom worked for him longer than others. Among them were Hans Kindermann (1902–1979) and Hans Ludwig Gottschalk (1904–1981). This study discusses the surviving evidence of their work for Yahuda, as well as the unsuccessful attempt of Hedwig Klein (1911–1942) to enter Yahuda’s service in 1938.}, year = {2025}, pages = {63-127} } @article{MTMT:36384875, title = {Tēmōnit. The Jewish Varieties of Yemeni Arabic. By ORI SHACHMON. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2022. 250 p. ISBN 978-3-447-11912-2.}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36384875}, author = {Gacsályi-Tóth, Dénes Ádám}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {48}, unique-id = {36384875}, issn = {0239-1619}, year = {2025}, pages = {129-131} } @article{MTMT:36384888, title = {Traveling Scholars and Their Audition Certificates:. An Interpretation of the Status of Late Ayyubid Aleppo (624–658/1227–1260) as a Center of Knowledge}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36384888}, author = {Janssen, Koen}, doi = {10.58513/ARABIST.2025.48.2}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {48}, unique-id = {36384888}, issn = {0239-1619}, abstract = {The scholarly environments outside the main centers of knowledge of the early thirteenth century—Damascus, Cairo and Baghdad—are understudied areas in the scholarship on the intellectual history on this period. The study of audition certificates can give detailed information on many known and unknown scholars. However, these sources were scattered across the many manuscript collections all over the world. With the launch of the Audition Certificate Platform, many audition certificates have been made accessible. This makes it possible to survey large numbers of audition certificates. With these sources available, it is possible to reconstruct the scholarly networks of the less studied centers of knowledge. Aleppo is one of these centers, and many audition certificates from the Ayyubid period of this city have survived. This study will use these sources to get insights in the role that Aleppo played in the transmission of ḥadīṯ sciences in the late Ayyubid period (624–658/1227–1260).}, year = {2025}, pages = {23-62} } @article{MTMT:35182307, title = {Muḥammad’s Jug: Arabic Motifs in Borges’s Texts}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35182307}, author = {Korvin, Gábor}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {46}, unique-id = {35182307}, issn = {0239-1619}, abstract = {In this study I discuss twenty-three Arabic motifs in Borges’s texts and trace them back to their most likely sources. Borges did not know Arabic and gained his knowledge of the Orient from secondary sources, books by Burton, Lane, Asín Palacios, and others. In many cases Borges playfully changed these Arabic motifs, or invented new ones. In the rare occasions when he gave his sources, these were as fantastic as the stories themselves: references to non-existing tomes by non- existing scholars, to an odd book of Burton (instead of the correct one by Lane), or to an out-of-context citation from Gibbon. I succeeded in locating the sources of most of these motifs and proved for a few others that they are inventions of Borges. I could not find the source of one poem. For one motif (“Iskander’s mirror”) I could only show that it is well-documented in Oriental literature, but I could not find any likely source where Borges could have learned about it.}, year = {2024}, pages = {103-147}, orcid-numbers = {Korvin, Gábor/0000-0003-2248-7684} } @article{MTMT:35637265, title = {Tamás Iványi. A Biographical Note}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35637265}, author = {Szombathy, Zoltán}, doi = {10.58513/ARABIST.2024.47.1}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {47}, unique-id = {35637265}, issn = {0239-1619}, year = {2024}, pages = {9-14}, orcid-numbers = {Szombathy, Zoltán/0000-0002-3071-9441} } @article{MTMT:35637273, title = {Publications of Tamás Iványi}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35637273}, author = {Dévényi, Kinga}, doi = {10.58513/ARABIST.2024.47.2}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {47}, unique-id = {35637273}, issn = {0239-1619}, year = {2024}, pages = {XV-XXXII} } @article{MTMT:35637278, title = {The Sultan and His Ṣūfī Lodge. The Beginnings of the Ḫānaqāh of Siryāqūs}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35637278}, author = {Horváth, Máté}, doi = {10.58513/ARABIST.2024.47.4}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {47}, unique-id = {35637278}, issn = {0239-1619}, year = {2024}, pages = {15-31} } @article{MTMT:35637285, title = {Camels and Horses in al-Aṣmaʿī’s Monographs}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35637285}, author = {Kutasi, Zsuzsanna}, doi = {10.58513/ARABIST.2024.47.5}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {47}, unique-id = {35637285}, issn = {0239-1619}, year = {2024}, pages = {33-51}, orcid-numbers = {Kutasi, Zsuzsanna/0000-0002-8003-0917} } @article{MTMT:35637289, title = {Traders Teaching Islam. Comments on the Islamic Religious Literature Used in Southeast Asia}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/35637289}, author = {Laki, Áron Bence}, doi = {10.58513/ARABIST.2024.47.6}, journal-iso = {ARABIST}, journal = {ARABIST: BUDAPEST STUDIES IN ARABIC}, volume = {47}, unique-id = {35637289}, issn = {0239-1619}, year = {2024}, pages = {53-66} }