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15 produkter
Two Arabic Travel Books
Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
Av Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
573 kr
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Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to …
Diwan 'Antarah Ibn Shaddad
A Literary-Historical Study
Inbunden, 2018
1093 kr
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The pre-Islamic warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of Arabic. These philologists collected and studied the diwan of 'Antarah as part of their recovery and …
Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Av Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2888 kr
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Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim …
Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Av Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1043 kr
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Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim …
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz’s bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's …
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
E-bok, 2013
615 kr
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Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, ''In Praise of Books'', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz’s bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz''s …
Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Av Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
1235 kr
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Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim …
Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Av Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
1235 kr
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Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim …
Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
Häftad, 2026
500 kr
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Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz’s bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's …
Excellence of the Arabs
Av Ibn Qutaybah, James E. Montgomery m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
570 kr
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The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity—its merits, values, and origins—at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era.In the cosmopolitan milieu of Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of …
Fate the Hunter
Early Arabic Hunting Poems
Inbunden, 2023
413 kr
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A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the huntIn the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers' arms, while archers stalk their prey across the …
Demon Spirit
Arabic Hunting Poems
Av Abū Nuwās, James E. Montgomery m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
461 kr
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Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetryArguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed …
In Deadly Embrace
Arabic Hunting Poems
Av Ibn al-Muʿtazz, James E. Montgomery m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
413 kr
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A collection of poems about nature and powerTo Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe …
War Songs
Av ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād, James E. Montgomery m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
623 kr
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Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn …
Excellence of the Arabs
Av Ibn Qutaybah, James E. Montgomery m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
249 kr
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The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity—its merits, values, and origins—at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era.In the cosmopolitan milieu of Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of …
