"Suleiman provides a linguistic analysis of Jordanian Arabic spoken by educated groups and in particular by students at Yarmouk University. He investigates the extent to which spoken Jordanian Arabic is affected by the classical-colloquial dichotomy (i.e. the extent to which dig…
This book is a study of the cultural and political history of Christian Iraq, the Church of the East, the so-called 'Nestorians'. This history is seen through the Chronicle of Seert, a medieval Arabic Chronicle that reuses sources written several centuries earlier. This monograp…
This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD.
Covers the history and development of the Arabic language from its earliest beginnings to modern times, concentrating on the difference between the classical standard language and the dialects.
The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe.
A much-needed study of pre-Islamic poetry from Arabia, which fills a key gap in understanding not only the history of Arabian poetry, but also of Arabian ethos and ideology. What emerges is a complex, stylized discourse which reflects a distinctive cosmology.
Al-Kitaab Part One is the second book in the Al-Kitaab Arabic language program and is now available in an extensively revised and reorganized third edition. This book with its companion website develops skills in formal and colloquial Arabic, including reading, listening, speaki…
This book is a pioneering study of temporal typography and time-based calligraphic art written in the Arabic system of writing. Inspired by the innate qualities of Arabic script as well as certain practices in Islamic calligraphy and contemporary calligraphic art, the book devis…
This book is a pioneering study of temporal typography and time-based calligraphic art written in the Arabic system of writing. Inspired by the innate qualities of Arabic script as well as certain practices in Islamic calligraphy and contemporary calligraphic art, the book devis…
The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactio…
by Priest, Graham, Gabbay, Dov M., Hintikka, Jaakko, Benthem, Johan, Street, Tony, Symons, John, Rahman, Shahid, Rahman, Shahid, Wansing, Heinrich, Tahiri, Hassan, Bendegem, Jean Paul, Dubucs, Jacques, Fagot-Largeault, Anne, Fraassen, Bas, Lambert, Karel, Sandu, Gabriel, Williamson, Timothy
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