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Item Details
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ISLAMIC REFLECTIONS, ARABIC MUSINGS
STUDIES IN HONOUR OF ALAN JONES |
| By: |
Robert G. Hoyland (Editor), Philip F. Kennedy (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£45.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
090609450X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780906094501 |
| Publisher: |
GIBB MEMORIAL TRUST |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2004 |
| Series: |
Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies |
| Pages: |
300 |
| Description: |
Fifteen essays on literature, linguistics, history and epigraphy. |
| Synopsis: |
Fifteen essays on literature, linguistics, history and epigraphy. Contents include: Maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry ( N Jamil ); the Qu'ran as a source of law: the case of zakat (alms-tax) ( Y Dutton ); On the difficulty of knowing mediaeval Arab authors: the case of Abu I-Faraj and pseudo-Isfahani ( H Kilpatrick ); Mahfuz's urban battlegrounds ( R Ostle ); Inscriptions of companions of the prophet in the Merv Oasis ( V Porter ); Muslim jizya-payers in Christian Sicily ( J Johns ); The Mu'allaqat in the west: a brief bibliographical survey ( H Bleaney ); Theomnestus of Nicopolis, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, and the beginnings of Islamic veterinary science ( R Hoyland ); Historians and the Arabic biographical dictionary ( P Auchterlonie ). |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Gibb Memorial Trust |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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