Saadeddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian, was inspired to merge the Arabic words for republic (gumhuriya) and kingdom (mamlaka) into gumlukiya.Mr Ibrahim, who was recently jailed by an Egyptian court for seven years, thinks the witticism may be one cause of his troubles.
Back in 2000, sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim coined the phrase jumlukiyyah, a melding of the Arabic words for "republic" and "monarchy". This phenomenon of "monarpublicanism," he pointed out, was the dynastic principle that then governed the leadership succession in much of the Middle East.
The Republic of Arabic Letters (Belknap Press) examines how these Christians acquired, studied, and learned deeply about Arabic manuscripts.
The constitution proclaims Tunisia a republic with Arabic as its language and Islam as its religion.
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Assistant Professor of History at Williams College ALEXANDER BEVILACQUA for a discussion of his new book, The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment.
In the parallel world of the Green Book, the system is called a Jamahiriyya - a neologism that plays on the Arabic word for a republic, Jumhuriyya, implying "rule by the masses".
His most recent book is The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction (University of Notre Dame Press, April 2015) and his most recent novel is Sulaf Tavern of Baghdad (Sulaf Baghdad; Beirut: Arabic Center Publications, in Arabic, 2016).
Tunisia is a free state, independent and sovereign: its religion is Islam, its language Arabic, and its regime the republic.
The 31-word pledge to the American flag and republic was read in Arabic during Wednesday morning announcements at Pine Bush high school, located 65 miles (105km) north-west of New York City.
YEREVAN, Armenia — At the newly opened Cilician School in this former Soviet republic, the textbooks are in Arabic, photocopied from a single set flown out of war-torn Syria.
