Language & Literature
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Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol I [Hardback]
Richard M. Frank (Author)
£67.50ISBN: 9780860789772
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on th... .... Learn More -
Ideas, Images and Methods of Portrayal: Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam [Hardback]
Sebastian Gunther (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9789004143258
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This volume publishes sixteen specially commissioned essays by young scholars interested in the cultural and religious origin of Arabic texts and the ways in which Islamic authors voiced and promoted their ideas. Suppported by extracts in Engli... .... Learn More -
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan [Hardback]
Geoffrey Khan (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9781874780717
Published by : Khalili Collections
Series: STUD. IN KHAL. COLL.
Volume: 5
Thirty two legal and administrative documents from a private archive of a family from north-eastern Afghanistan, datable between AH 138 and AH 160 (AD 755-777).
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Traces of Song: Selections from Ancient Arabic Poetry [Paperback]
Walid Khazendar (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780954497552
Published by : St John's College Research Centre
This book brings together two of the most important and fascinating art forms in Arabic culture: poetry and calligraphic painting. Walid Khazendar, one of the leading poets in the Arab world, has selected and translated into English twenty-five... .... Learn More -
Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam [Hardback]
John McGinnis (Author)
£82.00ISBN: 9789004139602
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
These twelve papers, the proceedings of the Second Annual Avicenna Study Group Symposium held at the University of Mainz in 2002, present recent scholarship on the life, work and thought of Avicenna (born in the latter part of the 10th century)... .... Learn More -
Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones [Hardback]
Robert G. Hoyland (Author); Philip F. Kennedy (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780906094501
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Fifteen essays on literature, linguistics, history and epigraphy. Contents include: Maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry ( N Jamil ); the Qu'ran as a source of law: the case of zakat (alms-tax) ( Y Dutton ); On the difficulty of knowing mediae... .... Learn More -
The Saljuqnama of Zahir al-Din Nishapuri: A critical text making use of the unique manuscript in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society [Hardback]
Zahir Al-Din Nihapuri (Author); A. H. Morton (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780906094488
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The Saljuqnama is a historical work written around AD 1188 for Tughril III, the last of the Saljuq dynasty to rule in Iran. Zahir al-Din Nishapuri hoped to win favour at the court by presenting his history of the great early Saljuq kings and th... .... Learn More -
Al-Farabi's Philosophical Lexicon [Hardback]
Ilai Alon (Editor); Shukri Abed (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9780906094471
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Al-Farabi (d. 950 AD), was perhaps the most original and influential of all Muslim philosophers of the Middle Ages. His intellectual activity spanned over areas as different as music, medicine, political theory, linguistics, logic, metaphysics,... .... Learn More -
Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew Poems [Hardback]
Bernard Lewis (Author)
£13.95ISBN: 9780691089287
Published by : Princeton University Press
Translations of 129 Middle Eastern poems, dating from the 7th to the early 18th centuries, many of which have not been published in English before. The introduction discusses the reasons behind this particular selection and the history and them... .... 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)
£105.00ISBN: 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