Ahmed Allaithy

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ahmed Allaithy is involved.

Title

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 2. Terminology in the Arab world

Edited by Abied Alsulaiman and Ahmed Allaithy

The current volume represents a revival of Arabic translation and terminology studies. These disciplines have been dominated by Western scholarship in recent decades, but in truth their historical tradition as a whole owes a great debt to Arabic scholarship. The first systematic translation… read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 2] 2019. vi, 267 pp.

Articles

Allaithy, Ahmed, Mai Zaki, Boutheina Khaldi and Meis Al-Kaisi 2024 Linguistic hegemony in academia: The impact of English on Arabic scholarship Language Problems and Language Planning 48:3, pp. 225–261 | Article

This research paper addresses the complex interplay between multilingualism and the pervasive dominance of the English language in academic publishing, particularly focusing on Arabic academic publications in the humanities. This study adopts a comprehensive research methodology, employing both… read more

Allaithy, Ahmed 2019 Chapter 7. There is nothing like Him: A syntactic, semantic, rhetorical and translational analysis of Qur’anic terminology Handbook of Terminology: Volume 2. Terminology in the Arab world, Alsulaiman, Abied and Ahmed Allaithy (eds.), pp. 155–180 | Chapter

This paper provides a syntactic, semantic and rhetorical (balāġi) analysis of the term-statement made in the Holy Qur’an 42:11, namely (لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ) ‘laysa ka-mi̱tlihi-šay’un’, which may be loosely translated as ‘There is nothing like Him’ in reference to Allah (God). A method of… read more