Vol. 2 No. 007 (2014): Issue 007

غلاف العدد 7 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 7 of Tabayyun (2014) includes the following studies and articles: “Rousseau in Arabic: Between Clarity and Opacity in Text” (Abdelaziz Labib); “Standard Amazigh: Between the Invention of a New Language and the Manufacturing of Ideological Illusion” (Mohamed el-Koukhi); “The Phenomenon of I’rab: Between Linguistic Conventions and Relations of Proximity” (Abdenbi Hamani); “Arabic Terms: Between Adaptation and Innovation” (Elias Youssef); “An Introduction to the Skopos Theory by Hans Vermeer and Katharina Reiss” (Lisa Roth); “Kamal Salibi’s Historiography of Modern Lebanon and the Image of the Emir of Maan” (Wajih Kawtharani); “Narration as an Object of Cultural Studies” (Driss El khadraoui); “Language and History: Which One is Betraying the Other?” (Rami Abu Shihab); “History Knowledge in the West-Philosophical, Scientific and Literary Approaches of History by Qais Madi Ferro” (Walid Noueihed); “La pensée communicationnelle, édition augmentée by Bernard Miège” (Hani Awwad); “German Orientalism during the Age of Empire-Religion” (Ziad mouna); “Report on the Conference “Changing Perspectives in Old Testament Studies: Past, Present, and Future”” (Ziad mouna); “Ibn Khaldun: On Arabic Linguistics and Language as an Artificial Faculty” (Editorial Board of Tabayyun).

Published: 2014-08-01

Studies

  • Rousseau in Arabic: Between Clarity and Opacity in Text

    Author: Abdelaziz Labib
    07-26

    Through an examination of the translation of Rousseau into Arabic, this study addresses the question of translation in its entirety. The importance of this study lies in its focus on the...

  • Standard Amazigh: Between the Invention of a New Language and the Manufacturing of Ideological Illusion

    Author: Mohamed el-Koukhi
    27-46

    This study begins with a historical introduction of the evolution of the “Amazigh question” from the late 1960s to the present, and its role in shaping an individual’s consciousness, culture,...

  • The Phenomenon of I’rab: Between Linguistic Conventions and Relations of Proximity

    Author: Abdenbi Hamani
    47-70

    This study attempts a detailed discussion of the phenomenon of I’rab (conjugation) between linguistic conventions and relations of proximity through three levels: I’rab and linguistic...

  • Arabic Terms: Between Adaptation and Innovation

    Author: Elias Youssef
    71-82

    The Arabic language faces increasing pressure to keep up with accelerating scientific and technological discoveries. This is especially noticeable on the level of terms, as the need to find...

  • An Introduction to the Skopos Theory by Hans Vermeer and Katharina Reiss

    Author: Lisa Roth
    83-96

    The Skopos theory is considered one of the most controversial methodologies in the field of translation studies. The debates that have been stirred by this theory within translation studies...

  • Kamal Salibi’s Historiography of Modern Lebanon and the Image of the Emir of Maan

    Author: Wajih Kawtharani
    97-106

    When dealing with Kamal Salibi’s research contribution to the field of the modern and contemporary history of Lebanon, I am struck as a reader and researcher in this field, by two main issues...

  • Narration as an Object of Cultural Studies

    Author: Driss El khadraoui
    107-132

    This study seeks to discuss the dialectic relation between power and cultural resitance, highlighting that the relation between literature and literary criticism novels cannot be reduced to the...

Discussions

  • Language and History: Which One is Betraying the Other?

    Author: Rami Abu Shihab
    147-156

    The author of Empires of the Word, Nicholas Ostler is the founder of the Foundation for Endangered Languages and an IT and language technology consultant at the European Commission. In his book...

  • History Knowledge in the West-Philosophical, Scientific and Literary Approaches of History by Qais Madi Ferro

    Author: Walid Noueihed
    157-168

    What is history? A question undoubtedly arduous to answer, but the task of solving and explicating it is undertaken by researcher Qais Madi Ferro in this book. Over four chapters, he reviews the...

  • La pensée communicationnelle, édition augmentée by Bernard Miège

    Author: Hani Awwad
    169-171

    The main concern of this book focuses on the attempt to unify the methodological tools that have accumulated over the past six decades for discussing the subject of communications/media, or more...

  • German Orientalism during the Age of Empire-Religion

    Author: Ziad mouna
    173-174

    This book fills a major gap in Edward Said’s book Orientalism, which completely overlooked the German orientalists and focused its whole interest on English and French orientalists, making...

Reports

  • Report on the Conference “Changing Perspectives in Old Testament Studies: Past, Present, and Future”

    Author: Ziad mouna
    179-188

    Held by the University of Copenhagen, this conference addressed the changing perspectives in old testament studies. An opening address of around 60 minutes was delivered by Jack Sasson who spoke...

From the Library

  • Ibn Khaldun: On Arabic Linguistics and Language as an Artificial Faculty

    Author: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
    135-144

    It should be known that language, as the term is customarily used, is the expression by a speaker of his intention. Such expression is an act of the tongue which originates in an intention to...