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Islamic Literature
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Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Professor Alan Jones
edited by Robert G Hoyland and Philip F Kennedy
These fifteen essays were written in honor of Alan Jones, distinguished Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the Oriental Institute in Oxford, by his former students and colleagues.
c.288p (The E J W Gibb Memorial Trust 2004)
Hardback. Price US$80.00
Écrit et culture en Asie centrale et dans le monde turco-iranien, Xe-XIXe siècles
edited by F. Richard and M. Szuppe
English summary: Central Asia, the vast area at the conjunction of "Iran and Turan", has for millennia been the meeting place of very varied cultures. This cultural variety finds its expression in the books that have been written there. This volume presents 15 studies that illustrate different cultural aspects of the culture and writing of Central Asia in relation to the Turco-Iranian world. French text.
French description: ...
Hardback. Price US$87.00
The World of Murtada al-Zabidi (1732-91). Life, Networks and Writings
by Stefan Reichmuth
Murtada al-Zabidi was a Humanist scholar and a Muslim, whose twelfth-century writings are here examined in the context of their geographical and historical setting. The period when Zabidi was writing saw a shift in the balance of power from the Muslim empires to the Western world, reflected in the stories he told of his travels from India on to Cairo, across vast distances and coming across an extraordinary range of people. The five chapters in ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00
Abdelhafidh al-Mansur's On Hunting
translated by Sir Terence Clark and Muawiya Derhalli
The original manuscript of On Hunting was presented to the Hafsid Sultan of North Africa al-Mustansir bi-Allah, known as al-Mansur, in 1247. He was a passionate hunter with Saluqis, falcons and other predators on his estate at Bizerte. The complete book apparently dealt with all aspects of hunting and falconry but only Parts VII and VIII of Volume IV of the original seven volumes remains, which Abdulhafedh Mansur of Tunis University published as ...
Paperback. Price US$36.00
L'Afrique dans le Uns al-muhag wa-rawd al-furag d'al-Idrisi
by J.-C. Ducene
English summary: This edition of Uns al-muhag wa-rawd al-furag by al-Idrisi illuminates both the work carried out by the Arab geographers of Sicily, and the network of roads in Africa from the Bilad al-Sudan to the Mediterranean at the end of the twelfth century. Place names and routes in West Africa, Central Sahara, and East Africa hitherto unknown or certified later appear together. The map also shows the first representation of ...
Paperback. Price US$64.00
Die Geburt des Propheten Muhammad: Drei Dichtungen aus Mittelasien
by Sigrid Kleinmichel
This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of the 19th century. It presents three text that praise the birth of the prophet: the Mawludu 'n-nabi by Hilwati (1858-1921), a work by the poet Halis, and the Na't by Tïnïslïq-oghlï (1903). German text. 356p (Reichert Verlag 2009)
Hardback. Price US$168.00
Manuscript, Text and Literature: Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts
by Bo Utas
This is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th birthday. Subjects include the influence of Sufism on Classical Persian poetry, non-religious Book Pahlavi literature, Modern Persian literature, New Persian prosody, and manuscript edition. 300p (Reichert Verlag 2008)
Hardback. Price US$83.00
Qamishly, Plumes et Ténèbres: Lectures de quatre oeuvres en prose de Salim Barakat
by Burgi Roos
Salim Barakat, one of the most important contemporary Kurdic-Syrian writers, publishes poems, autobiographic texts and novels. He is generally acknowledged as one of the most important representatives of modern Arab literature. In this book, Burgi Roos analyses his prose work using modern literary methods. 226p (Reichert 2008)
Hardback. Price US$84.00
Le Conte du Portefaix et des Trois Jeunes Femmes dans le manuscrit de Galland (XIVe - XVe Siecles): Edition, traduction et etude du Moyen Arabe d'un conte des Millee et Une Nuits
by B. Halflants
Se limiter, comme l'a fait B. Halflants, en présence d'une édition critique déjà réalisée avec beaucoup de soin, à l'étude approfondie du moyen arabe d'un seul manuscrit arabe essentiel des Mille et Une Nuits, comme celui dit de Galland, permet non seulement de mettre en évidence un grand nombre de traits communs au moyen arabe des juifs, des chrétiens et des musulmans, mais aussi de traits ...
Paperback. Price US$109.00
L'épitaphe ottomane musulmane (XVIe-XXe siècles): Contribution à une histoire de la culture ottomane
by Edhem Eldem and Nicolas Vatin
Classical Ottoman Muslim funerary stelae evolved during the 16th century. Although the Turks in medieval Anatolia, including the Ottomans, first adapted Arabic funerary inscriptions to their purposes, the Ottomans in the end changed to the Turkish language and thus created a new formula distinctly their own. French text. 377p (Peeters 2007, Collection Turcica 13)
Paperback. Price US$102.00
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