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Chronicle of the Early Safavids and the Reign of Shah Ismāʿīl (907–930/1501–1524)
Inbunden, 2019
1241 kr
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In this volume, Kioumars Ghereghlou presents an edition, with preface and indexes, of a previously unpublished sixteenth-century Persian chronicle. Written by Qāsim Beg Ḥayātī, a court scribe to Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 1524–76), it covers Safavid history beginning with the early part of the fourteenth …
Aristocratic Violence and Holy War
Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier
Inbunden, 1996
809 kr
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This book discusses the relationship between the idea of Holy War in early Islamic societies and the competition for resources and legitimacy among Muslims who lived on the Arab-Byzantine frontier, providing a fresh perspective on the history of that region during the late Umayyad and early Abbasid …
Vrttivarttika or Commentary on the Functions of Words of Appaya Diksita
Av Edwin Gerow
Inbunden, 2001
517 kr
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This present text represents a significant improvement over the two previously published texts of Vrttivarttika. The novelty of the present edition, aside from correcting many errors found in its predecessors, lies in a careful comparison of the two previous editions, and their collation with still …
Ritual and politics in ancient Mesopotamia
Inbunden, 2005
734 kr
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Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia is a compilation of three essays by Julian Reade, Walther Sallaberger, and Philippe Talon, introduced and edited by Barbara Nevling Porter. The essays stem from a workshop organized by Porter as part of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held …
Vedic Ideals of Sovereignty and the Poetics of Power
Inbunden, 2007
949 kr
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This monograph examines a number of motifs central to the expression of the ideal of sovereignty as it is articulated in Vedic liturgical poetry. It argues that, because the qualities and privileges of a sovereign leader were coveted even by those for whom there was no possibility of attaining …
Rebellions and Peripheries in the Cuneiform World
Inbunden, 2010
613 kr
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This book explores how ancient Mesopotamian and Near Eastern states conceptualized, managed, and recorded internal resistance and peripheral conflicts.
Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics
How Sunni Legal Theorists Imagined a Revealed Law
Inbunden, 2011
831 kr
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This book is the first historical analysis of those parts of Islamic legal theory that deal with the language of revelation, and a milestone in reconstructing the missing history of legal theory in the ninth and tenth centuries. It offers a fresh interpretation of al-Shafii’s seminal thought, and …
Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China
Inbunden, 2011
705 kr
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Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master remarks at one point in his Exemplary Figures, “Books are as sexy as women.” Modern readers may frown at a comparison they regard as less than apt. Yang was supremely aware, however, of longstanding traditions, ascribed both to the sages and to …
Early Hebrew Orthography
A Study of the Epigraphic Evidence
Av David Noel Freedman, Frank Cross Jr
Häftad, 1990
510 kr
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Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle
Umayyad Crucifixion in Its Late Antique Context
Inbunden, 2014
649 kr
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What historical continuity, if any, existed between the practice of crucifixion in the early Islamic polity and crucifixion as practiced by the Byzantines in the Late Roman empire and by the Sasanids in Persia? Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle explores how the first caliphal dynasty of early …
Hab/piru
Häftad, 1955
423 kr
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Tell el-Amarna tablets, Sumerian language -- Texts, Akkadian language -- Texts, Egyptian language -- Texts, 11.43 Old Testament in relation to other cultures, Akkadian language, Egyptian language, Sumerian language, Apiroe
Vasanta Vilasa
A Poem of the Spring Festival
Inbunden, 1962
1341 kr
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The Vasanta Vilasa is a poem of the spring festival in Old Gujarātī accompanied by Sanskrit and Prakrit stanzas and illustrated with miniature paintings. Here it is critically edited and translated, with an introduction and a description of the paintings.
Footprints of the Buddha
An Eighth-Century Old Japanese Poetic Sequence
Av Roy Miller
Häftad, 1975
569 kr
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Aspects of Versification in Sanskrit Lyric Poetry
Inbunden, 1977
1059 kr
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A scholarly analysis exploring the formal structures of classical Sanskrit lyric poetry. The work focuses on the intersection of language, meter, and poetic form.
Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory
An Inquiry into the Art of 'Abbasid Apologetics
Inbunden, 1986
566 kr
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Language, Literature, and History
Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner
Inbunden, 1987
809 kr
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Muslim Philosopher on the Soul and Its Fate
Al-'Amiri's Kitab al-Amad 'ala l-abad
Inbunden, 1988
740 kr
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Salibhadra-Dhanna-Carita
The Tale of the Quest for Ultimate Release by Salibhadra and Dhanna
Inbunden, 1992
921 kr
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Early Dynastic List of Geographical Names
Inbunden, 1992
734 kr
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This study reconstructs Mesopotamian geography based primarily on the third-millennium lists of geographical place names found at Abu Salabikh in Mesopotamian and at Ebla in Syria. Frayne has extracted much relevant data from tablets of approximately the same period and later, as well as modern …
