Islamic World & Culture
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Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins': A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer [Hardback]
Bart Wagemakers (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782972457
Published by : Oxbow Books
Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953–4 visite... .... Learn More -
Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter [Hardback]
Mark B. Garrison (Author); Margaret Cool Root (Author); Charles E. Jones (Author)
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ISBN: 9781885923127
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 117
This is the first volume (text and plates) of the analytically legible seals (ca. 1,162) retrieved through many thousands of full or partial impressions preserved on the 2,087 Elamite administrative tablets recovered during the 1930s excavation... .... Learn More -
The Babar-Nama [Hardback]
Annette S. Beveridge (Author)
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ISBN: 9780718902049
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
Babar was born in 1483 and died in 1530. His autobiography, a classic of Chaghatay Turkish literature, provides a vivid picture of the character and eventful career of a sophisticated and observant Central Asian warrior Prince, for before founding... .... Learn More -
Ismailis in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
Shafique N. Virani (Author)
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Mesir us-suara (or Tezkere Asik Celebi) [Hardback]
G. M. Meredith-Owens (Author); Asik Celebi (Author)
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ISBN: 9780718902001
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
This sixteenth century biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets with comments on their style and examples of their work was one of Gibb's principle sources for Ottoman poetry in its most flourishing period. Turkish text. .... Learn More -
The Censure of Speculative Theology of Ibn Qudama (Tahrim al-Nazar fi Kutub al al-Kalam) [Hardback]
G. Makdisi (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094167
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn 'A... .... Learn More -
The Makarim al-Akhlaq [Hardback]
T. Gandje (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094112
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
Facsimile edition of a treatise on Alishir Navai Ghiyath ad-Din b. Humam ad-Din Muhammad, known as Khvandmir . The Makarim al-Akhlaq is a panegyric biography of Khvandmir's patron 'Ali Shir Nava'i, famous as the greatest of Catagay poets. Pers... .... Learn More -
Kitab al-nasikh wa-l-mansukh of Abu 'Ubaid al-Qasim b. Sallam (MS Istanbul, Topkapi, Ahmet III A 143) [Hardback]
John Burton (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094174
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
The term nasikh wa mansukh, usually translated as 'abrogation', relates to theories arising from the early exegesis of the Qur'an, in an attempt to resolve apparent contradictions in the Qur'anic text between different statements, especially th... .... Learn More -
The Life, Personality and Writings of al-Junayd [Paperback]
Ali Hassan Abdel-Kader (Author)
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ISBN: 9780718902230
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Al-Junayd (d. 910) was one of the most significant figures of the formative period of Islamic mystical thought and practice in the third to ninth centuries. This volume contains an account of his life, personality and writings; his doctrine; an... .... Learn More -
Die Autobiographie des Dolmetschers 'Osman Aga aus Temeschwar [Hardback]
Richard F. Kreutel (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094075
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
'Osman Aga was the son of an Ottoman officer settled in the town of Temeschwar, in the West of present-day Rumania. Entering the army in his turn he was taken prisoner by the Austrians and most of his autobiography is concerned with the eleven yea... .... Learn More