04457nam 2200673 a 450 991110511680332120230725051929.097866137861669781281605474128160547697802315274600231527462(CKB)2550000000036325(EBL)908823(OCoLC)826476115(SSID)ssj0000535421(PQKBManifestationID)12202260(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535421(PQKBWorkID)10536489(PQKB)11239379(Au-PeEL)EBL908823(CaPaEBR)ebr10472006(OCoLC)731128332(Perlego)774469(MiAaPQ)EBC908823(EXLCZ)99255000000003632520101007d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA convergence of civilizations the transformation of Muslim societies around the world /Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd ; translated by George HolochNew York Columbia University Pressc2011New York :Columbia University Press,[2011]1 online resource (153 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780231150026 0231150024 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: Clash of Civilizations or Universal History?; 1. The Muslim Countries in the Movement of History; The Growth of Literacy and the Decline in Fertility; A "Disenchantment" 5 of the Muslim World; 2. Crises of Transition; Literacy, Contraception, Revolution; Muslim Crises of Transition; Islamism and Forecasting the Future; The Question of Ideological Content; 3. The Arab Family and the Transition Crisis; Patrilinealism and Patrilocalism; The Shiite Law of Inheritance; Endogamy; Psychological and Ideological Implications of EndogamyThe Shock of Modernization4. Other Muslim Women: East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; Malaysian and Indonesian Matrilocalism; The Mass Polygamy of Sub-Saharan Africa; Unprecedented Transition Crises?; 5. At the Heart of Islam: The Arab World; A Belated and Unexpected Transition: Literacy and Oil Wealth; France and the Acceleration of the Transition in the Maghreb; Backwardness and Division in Syria: Sunnis and Alawites; The Heterogeneity of the Arabian Peninsula; A European Lebanon?; The Palestinians: Occupation, War, and Fertility; 6. The Non-Arab Greater Middle East; Iran Ahead of TurkeyThe Uncertain Role of the StateDemographic Transition and Nation-state; Religion, Demography, Democracy; The Pakistani Demographic Time Bomb; Demographic Normality and Political Threat; Afghan Parenthesis; Bangladesh: Overpopulation and Decline of the fertility rate; 7. After Communism; Accelerated Increase in Literacy; Un-Islamic Birth Control: Through Abortion . . .; . . . And Through Infant Mortality; Muslim Divergences in the Balkans; 8. Matrilocal Asia; A Normal Transition That Has Stopped; In Malaysia, Nationalism Rather Than Islam; 9. Sub-Saharan AfricaRegional Differences in Fertility:Ethnic Groups and ReligionsMuslim Girls Spared by Mortality; Conclusion; Appendix: Total Fertility Rates of Muslim Countries; NotesWe are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are on the verge of destroying each other. The demographics of one group remain sluggish, while the population of the other has exploded, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this subject, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefitting from a universal movement guiding humanity since the Enlightenment.This book's historical and geographical sweep discredits the notion of a sDemographyIslamic countriesPopulationDemography.304.60917/67Courbage Youssef127500Todd Emmanuel1951-151130Holoch George1921051MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911105116803321A convergence of civilizations4691655UNINA05436nam 2200721Ia 450 991114353540332120260415134937.0978128389540812838954049789027273130902727313810.1075/loall.18(CKB)2670000000280423(EBL)1053081(OCoLC)818870223(SSID)ssj0000755142(PQKBManifestationID)12318026(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755142(PQKBWorkID)10729711(PQKB)11282646(MiAaPQ)EBC1053081(Au-PeEL)EBL1053081(CaPaEBR)ebr10620933(CaONFJC)MIL420790(OCoLC)902947947(DE-B1597)721419(DE-B1597)9789027273130(EXLCZ)99267000000028042320120822d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBengali /Hanne-Ruth Thompson1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.20121 online resource (xxviii, 384 pages)London Oriental and African Language Library ;18London Oriental and African language library ;v. 189789027238191 9027238197 Includes bibliographical references and index.Bengali; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Glosses; Transliteration; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Bangla and its speakers; 2. History (Language and Literature); 3. The bangla lexicon; 4. Sadhu bhasha; 5. Bengali linguistics; Chapter 2. Sound system; 2.1 Phonemes; 2.1.1 Single vowels; 2.1.2 Vowel sequences; 2.1.3 Nasalised vowels; 2.1.4 Semivowel/glide; 2.1.5 Consonants; 2.1.6 consonant clusters or sequences; 2.2 syllable structure; 2.3 Vowel harmony; 2.4 Consonant assimilation; 2.5 The inherent vowel2.5.1 Presence or absence of the inherent vowel; 2.5.2 pronunciation; Chapter 3. The Bengali script; Alphabetical order of letters; Spellings and sounds; positioning of vowels; vowels; consonants; additional symbols; conjuncts; consonant vowel combinations; Chapter 4. Word formation; 4.1 Prefixes and suffixes; 4.1.1 Prefixes; 4.1.1.1 Sanskrit and Bangla prefixes; 4.1.2 Suffixes; 4.2 Adjective derivations; 4.3 Noun derivations; 4.4 Verbal patterns; Chapter 5. Morphology; 5.1 Parts of speech (overview); 5.2 Nouns; 5.2.1 Types of nouns; 5.2.2 Bare nouns; 5.2.3 Gender5.2.4 The classifiers - overview; 5.2.5 the classifiers- one by one; 5.2.5.1 ta; 5.2.5.2 ti; 5.2.5.3 jn; 5.2.5.4 khana and khani; 5.2.5.5 gulo, guli (occasionally gula); 5.2.5.6 tuku; 5.2.6 Plural formation; 5.2.7 Definite - indefinite; 5.2.8 Animate - inanimate; 5.2.9 Ordinary - honorific; 5.2.10 Count - non-count; 5.2.11 Case; 5.2.11.1 Nominative; 5.2.11.2 Genitive; 5.2.11.3 Objective; 5.2.11.4 Locative; 5.2.12 Multiple noun attachments; 5.3 Pronouns; 5.3.1 Personal and possessive pronouns; 5.3.2 Inanimate pronouns; 5.3.3 Relative pronouns; 5.3.4 Interrogative pronouns5.3.5 Indefinite pronouns; 5.3.6 Deictic pronouns; 5.4 Verbs; 5.4.1 Verb classes; 5.4.2 Vowel mutation; 5.4.3 Verb forms; 5.4.4 Imperatives; 5.4.5 Non-finite verb forms; 5.4.6 Incomplete verbs, isolated verb forms and verbal fragments; 5.5 Adjectives; 5.5.1 Types of adjectives; 5.5.2 Attributive uses; 5.5.3 Predicative uses; 5.5.4 Verbal adjectives; 5.5.5 Comparison of adjectives; 5.5.6 Quantifiers; 5.5.7 Distributive adjectives; 5.5.7.1 Prôti each; 5.5.7.2 Prôtyek each; 5.6 Adverbs; 5.6.1 Formation of adverbs; 5.6.1.1 With kôre; 5.6.1.2 With bhabe5.6.1.3 Adding -e (a locative ending) to some adjectives and nouns; 5.6.1.4 Adverbs in -tô; 5.6.2 Uses of adverbs; 5.6.2.1 Adverbs modifying verbs; 5.6.2.2 Adverbs modifying adjectives or other adverbs; 5.6.2.3 Sentence adverbs; 5.6.3 Semantic groups; 5.6.3.1 Time adverbials; 5.6.3.2 Adverbs of frequency; 5.6.3.3 Adverbs of place; 5.6.3.4 Adverbs of manner; 5.6.3.5 Adverbs of vagueness; 5.6.3.6 Adverbs of degree; 5.6.4 Order of adverbs; 5.7 Postpositions; 5.7.1 Common postpositions - overview; 5.7.2 Individual postpositions in context; 5.7.2.1 age; 5.7.2.2 upôre (also upôr, opôr); 5.7.2.3 kache; 5.7.2.4 charaBangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number of native speakers make Bangla the fifth or sixth largest language in the world. Like Hindi and other South Asian languages, Bangla has subject-object-verb word order, postpositions, causative and compound verbs. Unlike Hindi it has no gender.London Oriental and African Language LibraryBengali languageHistoryBengali languageGrammarBengali languageHistory.Bengali languageGrammar.491.4409Thompson Hanne-Ruth770002MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911143535403321Bengali1570455UNINA