后记:南亚的阿拉伯语复兴

IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES
M. Zaman
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尼罗·格林在他那篇博学而又令人振奋的文章中,帮助框定了对这次圆桌会议的贡献,同时也概述了该领域未来工作的方向,他指出了一个惊人的事实,即距离最后一次对该领域进行实质性的英国调查已经有近100年的时间了。那就是m·g·祖拜德·艾哈迈德的《印度对阿拉伯文学的贡献》。1929年,他在著名东方学家托马斯·阿诺德爵士(生于1930年)的指导下,在伦敦大学东方研究学院(当时被称为东方研究学院)完成了博士论文。该书随后由另一位杰出的东方学家汉密尔顿·吉布爵士(Sir Hamilton Gibb, 1971年出版)作序出版,至今仍保留着一些学术兴趣这种兴趣不仅在于它所列举的许多阿拉伯语作品的描述——在这方面远远超出了卡尔·布罗克尔曼的经典《阿拉伯文学概论》——而且,事后看来,还在于指导艾哈迈德工作的假设。艾哈迈德认为,在被调查的阿拉伯文学中,几乎没有什么原创性,部分原因是,当印度学者开始认真研究这些学科时,在《古兰经》注释、先知穆罕默德的教义(圣训)或法律等领域,已经没有多少可说的了。这在一定程度上也与当时相关研究领域到达印度时正在进行的智力衰退有关。无论是宗教文学还是世俗文学,甚至是波斯语作品,知识分子的处境都没有得到缓解:“……尽管印度产生了大量的波斯文学,但在这些贡献中却找不到任何原创的东西。
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Afterword: Reassessing Arabic in South Asia
In his learned and stimulating article that helps frame the contributions to this roundtable while also outlining directions for future work in this area, Nile Green notes the striking fact that it has been nearly a hundred years since the last substantial English survey of the field was attempted. That was M. G. Zubaid Ahmad's “Contribution of India to Arabic Literature,” completed as a PhD dissertation under the supervision of the noted Orientalist Sir Thomas Arnold (d. 1930) at the School of Oriental Studies (as it was then known), University of London, in 1929. It was subsequently published with a preface by another distinguished Orientalist, Sir Hamilton Gibb (d. 1971), and retains some scholarly interest to this day.1 That interest lies not only in the descriptions of the many Arabic-language works it lists—going well beyond Carl Brockelmann's classic Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur in this respect—but also, in hindsight, in the assumptions that guide Ahmad's work. Ahmad believed there was little in the Arabic literature surveyed that showed any originality, partly because there was not much remaining to be said in fields like Qur'anic exegesis, the reported teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (hadith), or law by the time Indian scholars began engaging seriously with these subjects. It was also partly to do with an intellectual decline well underway by the time relevant areas of inquiry had reached India. The intellectual landscape remained unrelieved whether one looked at religious or secular literature, or even at writings in Persian for that matter: “… in spite of the abundance of Persian literature produced in India, nothing original is found in these contributions.”2
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Middle East Studies publishes original research on politics, society and culture in the Middle East from the seventh century to the present day. The journal also covers Spain, south-east Europe, and parts of Africa, South Asia, and the former Soviet Union for subjects of relevance to Middle Eastern civilization. Particular attention is paid to the history, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, literature, and cultural studies of the area and to comparative religion, theology, law, and philosophy. Each issue contains approximately 50 pages of detailed book reviews. Subscribers to the print version also receive the Review of Middle East Studies free. Published under the auspices of the Middle East Studies Association of North America
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