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Vol. 61, no. 4 (Winter 2019)

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From Classical to Modern Arab Names and Back

Amin Almuhanna
Kuwait University

Jean-François Prunet
Kuwait University

Abstract. This article investigates the evolution of Arab personal name formulas in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant since the early days of Islam. We chronicle three periods from the five-component formula of the classical period (550–1600 CE) to the three-component formulas of the neoclassical Kuwaiti period (1600–1960 CE) and modern period in twelve countries (1960– present), as well as the two-component formula of the Islamic State (2014– present). We discuss the three modern name components and recent onomastic changes in Kuwait, and outline how some name formulas must have gradually evolved over time. Diachronic and synchronic differences in name formulas reflect national, political, social, and gender distinctions as well as perceptions of social identity.

Waqay: A Word about Water and the Andean World in a Twentieth-Century Spanish Manuscript from Huarochirí (Peru)

Sarah Bennison
University of St. Andrews

Abstract. Drawing on an important and newly accessed early twentieth-century manuscript from the highland Lima village of San Pedro de Casta, this article explores the linguistic landscape within which the text—an internal set of irrigation ritual regulations based on Inca precepts—emerged, and offers a highly contextualized analysis of the Quechua word waqay, which features in this predominantly Spanish-language text. The term is central to Andean conceptualizations of landscape, spirituality, and communication. In the local context, agro-pastoral production and community well-being hinge on the deliverance of this word in the annual canal-cleaning ritual.

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