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Traité de la chronologie chinoise, divisé en trois parties
Av Antoine Gaubil, Antoinne Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
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A French Jesuit and missionary to China, Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759) spent half his life in Beijing. His rigorous translations and studies in the fields of history, geography, astronomy and cartography made him one of the finest sinologists of his day. Thanks to his remarkable mastery of Chinese …
The Algebra of Mohammed ben Musa
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Mohammed ben Musa (c.780-c.850) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer. The word 'algebra' derives from his Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, which introduced modern algebraic methods. First published in 1831, this translation from Arabic into English was prepared by …
History of the War in Bosnia during the Years 1737-8 and 9
Av Omer Ofendi
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Serving as a judge in his native Bosnia in 1737 when war broke out between the Austrians and the Turks, Omer Efendi (about whose life little else is known) produced this vivid account of the conflict from an Ottoman perspective. Important for what it reveals about the region's social history, the …
A Dictionary and Grammar of the Malayan Language
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Published in 1812, this study of Malay in its written form was begun during William Marsden's service with the East India Company in Sumatra (1771-9). He continued his textual work in England upon his return, thus putting his practical knowledge into a solid scholarly frame. An expert in Asian …
Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration
From the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta and Bhascara
Av Brahmagupta
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The scholar and East India Company administrator Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837) brought India's rich mathematical heritage to the attention of the wider world with the publication of this book in 1817. Based on Sanskrit texts, it contains English translations of classic works by the Indian …
A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, Termed Shen-Tamil
To Which is Added, an Introduction to Tamil Poetry
Av C. G. Beschi
Häftad, 2013
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Published in 1822, but completed in manuscript form almost 100 years earlier, this work was designed to accompany Beschi's earlier Grammar of Common Tamil. While the latter enabled the student to speak the language, this reissue offers a way into reading Tamil's classical literature with its …
Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain
Particularly with Respect to Morals; and on the Means of Improving It
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Scotsman Charles Grant (1746-1823) travelled to India in 1767. During his 22-year stay, he rose through the ranks of the East India Company, serving as a member of the company's board of trade. Following his return to Britain, he served three times as the company's chairman and was also elected to …
A Translation of the Memoirs of Eradut Khan
A Nobleman of Hindostan, Containing Interesting Anecdotes of the Emperor Aulumgeer Aurungzebe, and of his Successors
Av Iradat Khan
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A nobleman of the court of the Mughal emperor, Iradat Khan (c.1649-1716) experienced the rule of Aurangzeb (1618-1707) and observed at first hand the decline of the Mughal empire. This English translation of his memoirs was first published in 1786 by Jonathan Scott (1754-1829), a captain of the …
A Dictionary of the Bengalee Language
In Which the Words Are Traced to their Origin, and their Various Meanings Given
Häftad, 2013
1017 kr
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The language of Bangladesh, West Bengal and parts of Tripura and Assam, Bengali is the sixth most spoken language in the world. A member of the Indo-Aryan family, with its origins in Sanskrit, it has over 230 million speakers. Published in 1825, this is the first volume of a revised three-part …
A Dictionary of the Bengalee Language
In Which the Words Are Traced to their Origin, and their Various Meanings Given
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The language of Bangladesh, West Bengal and parts of Tripura and Assam, Bengali is the sixth most spoken language in the world. A member of the Indo-Aryan family, with its origins in Sanskrit, it has over 230 million speakers. Published in 1825, this is the second volume of a revised three-part …
A Dictionary of the Bengalee Language
In Which the Words Are Traced to their Origin, and their Various Meanings Given
Häftad, 2013
1291 kr
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The language of Bangladesh, West Bengal and parts of Tripura and Assam, Bengali is the sixth most spoken language in the world. A member of the Indo-Aryan family, with its origins in Sanskrit, it has over 230 million speakers. Published in 1825, this is the third volume of a revised three-part …
A New Account of the East Indies
Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton
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Little is known of Captain Alexander Hamilton other than what he tells us in this work, first published in 1727. Written during his retirement, it is both an invaluable source of information on south-east Asia at the time and a lively travelogue of Hamilton's adventurous seafaring life in the …
A New Account of the East Indies
Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton
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Little is known of Captain Alexander Hamilton other than what he tells us in this work, first published in 1727. Written during his retirement, it is both an invaluable source of information on south-east Asia at the time and a lively travelogue of Hamilton's adventurous seafaring life in the …
Two Treatises on the Hindu Law of Inheritance
Av Jimutavahana, Vijnaneshwara
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Published in 1810, this work was one of the key translations of texts that formed part of the law books of the Anglo-Indian civil courts under the East India Company. A successor to the orientalist and jurist Sir William Jones, Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837) had taught himself Sanskrit and …
Introduction ... l'histoire du Buddhisme Indien
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Eugène Burnouf (1801-52), an eminent French orientalist and scholar of Sanskrit, made groundbreaking contributions to the knowledge of Zoroastrianism and to the deciphering of the Zend and Pāli languages. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and of numerous Asiatic …
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
Written in Egypt during the Years 1833, -34, and -35, Partly from Notes Made during a Former Visit to that Country in the Years 1825, -26, -27 and -28
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Edward William Lane (1801-76) published this work in two volumes in 1836. Resident in the country for many years, and fluent in Arabic, he devoted his life's study to Egypt. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Institut de France, Lane translated One Thousand and One Nights and …
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
Written in Egypt during the Years 1833, -34, and -35, Partly from Notes Made during a Former Visit to that Country in the Years 1825, -26, -27 and -28
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Edward William Lane (1801-76) published this work in two volumes in 1836. Resident in the country for many years, and fluent in Arabic, he devoted his life's study to Egypt. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Institut de France, Lane translated One Thousand and One Nights and …
The Hedaya, or Guide
A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws
Av Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
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Composed in the twelfth century by the leading Muslim jurist Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1135-97), the original Arabic al-Hidāyah remains a central text of Islamic personal law. This English translation, from a Persian version of the work, was prepared by the orientalist Charles Hamilton …
The Hedaya, or Guide
A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws
Av Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
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Composed in the twelfth century by the leading Muslim jurist Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1135-97), the original Arabic al-Hidāyah remains a central text of Islamic personal law. This English translation, from a Persian version of the work, was prepared by the orientalist Charles Hamilton …
The Hedaya, or Guide
A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws
Av Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
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1039 kr
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Composed in the twelfth century by the leading Muslim jurist Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1135-97), the original Arabic al-Hidāyah remains a central text of Islamic personal law. This English translation, from a Persian version of the work, was prepared by the orientalist Charles Hamilton …
The Hedaya, or Guide
A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws
Av Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
Häftad, 2013
1039 kr
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Composed in the twelfth century by the leading Muslim jurist Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1135-97), the original Arabic al-Hidāyah remains a central text of Islamic personal law. This English translation, from a Persian version of the work, was prepared by the orientalist Charles Hamilton …
Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences, during the British Embassy to Pekin, in 1816
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Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), Sinologist and politician, was a key figure in Anglo-Chinese relations, as had been his father. In 1798 he began working for the British East India Company in Canton (Guangzhou), where he was the only Englishman who could understand Chinese, having begun …
The Sikh Religion
Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors
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Born and educated in Ireland, Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841-1913) joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862. In 1882 he was promoted to the post of deputy commissioner of the Punjab. But it was after he retired from the civil service in 1893 that he gained public attention. Macauliffe developed a close …
The Sikh Religion
Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors
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Born and educated in Ireland, Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841-1913) joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862. In 1882 he was promoted to the post of deputy commissioner of the Punjab. But it was after he retired from the civil service in 1893 that he gained public attention. Macauliffe developed a close …
The Sikh Religion
Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors
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Born and educated in Ireland, Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841-1913) joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862. In 1882 he was promoted to the post of deputy commissioner of the Punjab. But it was after he retired from the civil service in 1893 that he gained public attention. Macauliffe developed a close …
The Sikh Religion
Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors
Häftad, 2013
650 kr
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Born and educated in Ireland, Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841-1913) joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862. In 1882 he was promoted to the post of deputy commissioner of the Punjab. But it was after he retired from the civil service in 1893 that he gained public attention. Macauliffe developed a close …
The Sikh Religion
Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
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Born and educated in Ireland, Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841-1913) joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862. In 1882 he was promoted to the post of deputy commissioner of the Punjab. But it was after he retired from the civil service in 1893 that he gained public attention. Macauliffe developed a close …
The Sikh Religion
Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors
Häftad, 2013
699 kr
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Born and educated in Ireland, Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841-1913) joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862. In 1882 he was promoted to the post of deputy commissioner of the Punjab. But it was after he retired from the civil service in 1893 that he gained public attention. Macauliffe developed a close …
The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
With an Appendix, Containing an Account of its Present Condition
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670 kr
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William Knighton (d.1900) published this history of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) in 1845. He spent most of his career there and in India, and published a number of vivid accounts of his experiences. This book surveys the ancient past of the island up to Knighton's own day, covering its many …
The Dervishes
Or, Oriental Spiritualism
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An American diplomat and self-taught scholar of the history and languages of the Islamic world, John Porter Brown (1814-72) published in 1868 this illustrated account of the Dervish orders of the Near East. Assisted closely by followers of this Sufi ascetic path while in Constantinople, Brown based …
