Reflets Des Deux Fleuves (Akkadica Supplementum, v.6)
The Unique Necklace (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)
by Ibn Abd Rabbih
"Al-Iqd al-Farid" ("The Unique Necklace"), translated now for the first time into English, is one of the classics of Arabic literature. Compiled in several volumes by an Andalusian scholar and poet named Ibn 'Abd Rabbih (246-328 H./860-940 C.E.), it remains a mine of information about various elements of Arab culture and letters during the four centuries before his death. Essentially it is a book of adab, a term understood in modern times to specifically mean literature but in earlier times its...
- The novel on which the book is based is important not only in modern Arabic literature but also in world literature. - The novel includes a wealth of literary, cultural, political, historical, and religious topics relevant to students of Arabic and Arab history and culture. - The book includes a variety of activities which use the events, language, and characters of the novel as a starting point for classroom discussions. - There is a number of high-quality online audio recordings of the te...
Linguistic Response to the Taboo of Death in Egyptian Arabic
by Magdalena Zawrotna
The work presents a study of the linguistic and pragmatic response to the taboo of death in Egypt. The analysis leads the author to the conclusion that the experience of death in Egyptian society is mediated by religion. The reaction to death announcements includes a number of strategies to protect both the author of the utterance and its recipient against the effects of the taboo related to this topic. The most important feature of the studied communication is formulaicity, which is at the same...
An Arabic-English Lexicon (in Eight Volumes), Vol. II
by Edward W Lane and Stanley Lane-Poole
Archaic Features of Canaanite Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible (Harvard Semitic Monographs, #47)
by Scott C. Layton
The Most Magic Word (Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph)
by William L. Moran
This book brings together a valuable collection of 14 previously published essays (and one not published) filled with insight and erudition by William L. Moran. He for many years was the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He had studied with W. F. Albright, Benno Landsberger, and Thorkild Jacobson and taught Assyriology at Harvard. They include ""The Creation of Man in Atrahasis I 192-249""; ""New Evident from Mari on the History of Prophecy""; The ANE Background of...
Despite dictatorship, international sanctions, and the ravages of war, Baghdad endures with a surprisingly exceptional modern architectural heritage. This beautifully illustrated study reveals the splendors of early twentieth-century architecture that still stand on the streets of Iraq's capital. Caecilia Pieri's documentation foregrounds the physical reality of modern Baghdad, very different from the image that we normally receive from the media. She draws on a number of unpublished sources and...
Babylonian Planetary Omens: Part Three (Cuneiform Monographs, #11)
by D.E. Pingree
This third fascicle of Babylonian Planetary Omens contains the edition of all cuneiform texts dealing with the planet Venus known to us. Most of these tablets are kept in the British Museum; the large number of unpublished texts were transliterated and the previously published texts were checked and collated from the originals. The texts are accompanied by translations, and each group of texts is commented upon by David Pingree from the point of view of the text history and astronomical signific...
Etudes Sud-Arabes (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, v.39)
by Peeters Publishers
Musical instruments of the Arab World (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
by Fatima Abdulkazem and Hitcham Chami
Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 13 books feature longer and more complex sentence structures. Sentences make use of a wide range of stylistic features which reflect progression in...
Die Nikomachische Ethik Des Aristoteles in Arabischer Ubersetzung
by Manfred Ullmann
Cet ouvrage est le premier d'un triptyque. Il a pour objectif de faire le tour des questions litteraires importantes de la poesie berbere. C'est ainsi que sont abordes: 1. Les genres poetiques: on aborde des themes de terminologie autochtone quant a la nomination generique de la poesie et a ses genres. 2. L'aspect traditionnel et moderne: on etudie a la fois les traits caracteristiques generaux de la production orale et de la production ecrite recente (performance, langue poetique, fonction du...
Aramaic Bowl Spells (Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity, #1)
by Shaul Shaked, James Nathan Ford, and Siam Bhayro
The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. The bowls are from the Schøyen Collection, which has some 650 texts in different varieties of Aramaic: Jewish Aramaic, Mandaic and Syriac, and forms the largest collection of its kind anywhere in the world. This volume pre...
Aramaic Texts from North Saqqara (Texts from Excavations Memoirs, #6)
by J.B. Segal
The volume publishes Aramaic papyri and Aramaic and Phoenician ostraca found during excavations in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara between 1966 and 1975. It contextualises these with Semitic texts found previously at Saqqara and provides an archaeological background for the finds. The papyri deal with taxation, legal, judicial and commercial matters, and some historical topics.
Das Abaton Des Lykaischen Zeus Und Der Hain Der Elaia
by Derk Ohlenroth
Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Bilingual Visual Dictionaries)
The perfect pocket reference for learning Arabic, make sure this helpful tool is packed when you next go on your travels. With over 6,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme, getting to grips with the Arabic language has never been easier. Whether you’re traveling for business or leisure, buying food or train tickets, discussing work, or famous sights on the tourist trail, you’ll gain confidence in your new language skills with this bilingual visual dictionary by your side. Photographs...
This Journal belongs to an Awesome Montessori Teacher
by Workplace - Wonders
The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 vol. set) (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, #110)
by Anson F. Rainey
The El-Amarna Correspondence offers a completely new edition of the Amarna Letters based on personal inspection and reading of all the extant tablets. This edition includes new transcriptions and a translation along with an extensive introduction and glossary of the Amarna Letters.