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Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus: Bio-Bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume One (A-G)
ISBN: 9789004141179 / Angielski / Twarda / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first of the ultimately three-volume Who's Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user...
This first of the ultimately three-volume Who's Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical ency...
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1175,85 zł |
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Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus: Bio-Bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume Three (N-Z)
ISBN: 9789004141896 / Angielski / Twarda / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This third and last of the three-volume Who's Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user...
This third and last of the three-volume Who's Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encycl...
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1175,85 zł |
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Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Volume 2
ISBN: 9789004144743 / Angielski / Twarda / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics is a major multi-volume reference work. It is a unique collaboration of hundreds of scholars from around the world and covers all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic, dealing with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic).
The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics is a major multi-volume reference work. It is a unique collaboration of hundreds of scholars from...
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1196,85 zł |
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Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Volume 3
ISBN: 9789004144750 / Angielski / Twarda / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brill is delighted to announce the third volume of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. A unique collaboration of over hundreds of scholars from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics covers all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic and deals with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic).
Brill is delighted to announce the third volume of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. A unique collaboration of over hundreds of sch...
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1196,85 zł |
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Official History in Modern Indonesia: New Order Perceptions and Counterviews
ISBN: 9789004144781 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dealing with New Order perceptions of the past this study gives insights into how the past can be used for purposes of national-building and regime legitimization and into the nature of the New Order. The Suharto regime created a coherent history that is reflected in recent archaeological and historical research, in popular histories and biographies, in monuments and in school textbooks. The author describes an official history stretching from the proto-Indonesia of Majapahit, through the Indonesian Revolution up to the birth of the New Order in 1965. He also gives a counterview to this...
Dealing with New Order perceptions of the past this study gives insights into how the past can be used for purposes of national-building and regime le...
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508,14 zł |
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Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts
ISBN: 9789004144941 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid 1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. Volume I: Glossary, published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume II: Ethnographic Texts presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays,...
Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the ...
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663,52 zł |
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In Synchrony with the Heavens (2 Vols.): Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization
ISBN: 9789004146518 / Angielski / Book / 1998 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the regulation of the astronomically-defined times of Muslim prayer. The study is based on over 500 medieval astronomical manuscripts first identified by the author, now preserved in libraries all over the world and originally from the entire Islamic world from the Maghrib to Central Asia and the Yemen. The materials presented provide new insights into the early development of the prayer ritual in Islam. They also call into question the popular notion...
This is the first investigation of one of the main interests of astronomy in Islamic civilization, namely, timekeeping by the sun and stars and the re...
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2402,10 zł |
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Enigmatic Charms: Medieval Arabic Block Printed Amulets in American and European Libraries and Museums
ISBN: 9789004147898 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a valuable source book for anyone interested in Arabic printing history. It illuminates the existence of an established block printing practice in medieval Islam and provides the foundation for broader, more extensive research in the field.
This is a valuable source book for anyone interested in Arabic printing history. It illuminates the existence of an established block printing practic...
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1125,46 zł |
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The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifā': A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought
ISBN: 9789004148994 / Angielski / Twarda / 678 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 C.E.), one of the major exponents of Arabic philosophy: the Ilāhiyyāt (Science of Divine Things) of the Kitāb al-Sifā' (Book of the Cure), known in the Latin Middle Ages as Liber de Philosophia Prima sive Scientia Divina. The first part of the book (on the Arabic translations of the Metaphysics, al-Kindī and al-Fārābī) introduces the discussion of Avicenna's reshaping of the...
This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the masterpiece on metaphysics by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 C.E....
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1167,45 zł |
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Der Kategorienkommentar Von Abū L-Farağ ʿabdallāh Ibn Aṭ-Ṭayyib: Text Und Untersuchungen
ISBN: 9789004149038 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Commentary on the Categories by Abū l-Farağ ibn aṭ-Ṭayyib is an important representative of the Aristotelian tradition in Arabic culture. Formally based on late antique commentaries on Aristotle's Categories, it provides the last example of the learned tradition still alive in eleventh-century Baghdad. The introduction offers a general survey of the commentaries on Aristotelian Categories, from the first Greek texts to the Arabic version featured here. The life and works of Ibn aṭ-Ṭayyib are also discussed. Systematic comparison with...
The Commentary on the Categories by Abū l-Farağ ibn aṭ-Ṭayyib is an important representative of the Aristotelian traditio...
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1133,86 zł |
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Speaking for Islam: Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies
ISBN: 9789004149496 / Angielski / Twarda / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who speaks for Islam? To whom do Muslims turn when they look for guidance? To what extent do individual scholars and preachers exert religious authority, and how can it be assessed? The upsurge of Islamism has lent new urgency to these questions, but they have deeper roots and a much longer history, and they certainly should not be considered in the light of present concerns only. The present volume - grown out of an international symposium at the Free University, Berlin in 2002 - is not so much concerned with religious authority, but with religious authorities, men and women...
Who speaks for Islam? To whom do Muslims turn when they look for guidance? To what extent do individual scholars and preachers exert religious authori...
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600,53 zł |
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The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
ISBN: 9789004149915 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the most extensive collection hitherto of his published and unpublished writings, this volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and interdisciplinary study of the ethical philosophy of al-Rāzī (1149-1210), a most outstanding and influential medieval philosopher-theologian. A complex picture emerges, across his philosophical, theological, ethical and juristic works, of a consistent and multi-layered ethical theory. Al-Rāzī departs from classical Ash'arī divine command ethics to develop both a consequentialist ethics of action, which seriously rivals Mu'tazili...
Using the most extensive collection hitherto of his published and unpublished writings, this volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and interdiscip...
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713,92 zł |
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Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus: Bio-Bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume Two (H-M)
ISBN: 9789004150379 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second of the three-volume Who's Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to...
This second of the three-volume Who's Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia....
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1175,85 zł |
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Neo-Muʿtazilismus?: Intention Und Kontext Im Modernen Arabischen Umgang Mit Dem Rationalistischen Erbe Des Islam
ISBN: 9789004150997 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the modern Arab rediscovery of the Muʿtazila through a critical assessment of the concept of "Neo-Muʿtazilism" and by concentrating on the various intentions and contexts of the use of Muʿtazilite ideas. The main part of the book analyzes five ways of understanding Mu'tazilite ideas -- liberal, historic-materialist, political-Islamic, literary-exegetical and through comparison with the philosophie des valeurs -- as well as one way of dealing with the school historically: the treatment of the miḥna. The book discusses a wide range of authors of...
This book examines the modern Arab rediscovery of the Muʿtazila through a critical assessment of the concept of "Neo-Muʿtazilism" and by con...
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1121,26 zł |
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Persian Wisdom in Arabic Garb (2 Vols.): ʿalī B. ʿubayda Al-Rayḥānī (D. 219/834) and His Jawāhir Al-Kilam Wa-Far&#
ISBN: 9789004151680 / Angielski / Twarda / 1529 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume introduces ʿAlī b. ʿUbayda al-Rayḥānī (d. 219/834), one of the central figures in the transmission of classical Greek and Persian wisdom into Arabic. It offers an edition, translation, and evaluation of his book Jawāhir al-kilam , one of the oldest collections of proverbial wisdom and moralia in Arabic, as well as other remaining pieces of his works. The first part of the book surveys the content of his more than sixty books and suggests that among his translations from Middle Persian into Arabic were the Sindbād-nāma...
This volume introduces ʿAlī b. ʿUbayda al-Rayḥānī (d. 219/834), one of the central figures in the transmission of class...
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1730,18 zł |
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Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus (3 vols.): An International Who's Who in Islamic Studies from its beginnings down to the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9789004152489 / Angielski / Book / 714 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Awarded by Choice the predicate of Outstanding Academic Title in January 2006, Dr. Behn's magnum opus Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus has gained wide-spread use and universal acclaim. The set of three volumes of this Who's Who in Islamic Studies takes as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus. In the course of decades Dr. Behn has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. An indispensable reference tool for any...
Awarded by Choice the predicate of Outstanding Academic Title in January 2006, Dr. Behn's magnum opus Concise Biographical Companion to Inde...
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3384,78 zł |
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Feder, Tafel, Mensch: Al-ʿĀmirīs Kitāb Al-Fuṣūl Fī L-Maʿālim Al-Ilāhīya Und Die Arab
ISBN: 9789004152557 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 441 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume deals with the philosopher Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʽĀmirī (died 992) and his reception of Neoplatonism, focusing on his Kitāb al-Fuṣūl fī l-maʽālim al-ilāhīya, the Chapters on Metaphysical Topics (Arabic text with German translation). The Chapters on Metaphysical Topics paraphrase sections of the Elements of Theology by the Neoplatonist Proclus (died 485) and are therefore part of the Arabic Procliana. The commentary analyses al-ʽĀmirī's combination of Greek philosophy with...
This volume deals with the philosopher Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʽĀmirī (died 992) and his reception of Neoplatonism, focusing on his <...
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902,88 zł |
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Historical Muscat: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer
ISBN: 9789004152663 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical Muscat is an attempt to define and explain the historical environment that determined the significance and design of Oman's capital city Muscat, its twin city Matrah, and their environs prior to 1970. It also examines how the development of the Muscat conurbation since 1970 has transcended the historical boundaries of the existing settlements and how the process of development has proceeded largely without any consideration of the impact on Muscat's tangible or remembered history. At the heart of the book is a historical gazetteer of forts, gates, palaces, mosques, houses,...
Historical Muscat is an attempt to define and explain the historical environment that determined the significance and design of Oman's capital ...
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592,13 zł |
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The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt: Cairo's Urban Reshaping
ISBN: 9789004152779 / Angielski / Twarda / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book consists of a collage of images that attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping of the city of Cairo to meet with the demands of globalisation. Analyzing the shift from socialist economy to the opening up of Egypt's economy, and how this has affected everyday life of the middle classes, the author touches on various themes such as the general changing lifestyles and conspicuous consumption, the spread of mobile phones, and coffee shops, the gated communities and secondary resorts. The "folklorisation of culture" through the...
This book consists of a collage of images that attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping ...
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566,93 zł |
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Performing Islam: Gender and Ritual in Iran
ISBN: 9789004152953 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performing Islam takes as its main focus the rich array of ceremonial activities that shape and inform the lives of circles of women in south Tehran. Based on anthropological fieldwork, the book describes and analyses rituals that mark religious anniversaries and life course events in Iran today. Arguing that the ritual performances are powerful forums where ideas develop, and where rules, symbols and discourses are contested, this book discusses the values and beliefs underpinning gender constructions in a rapidly changing and complex society. The ambiguous metaphorical language of...
Performing Islam takes as its main focus the rich array of ceremonial activities that shape and inform the lives of circles of women in south T...
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256,17 zł |