Afro-Asiatic languages
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Afro-Asiatic languages
Hardback. Explores the use of allegory in the writing of the renowned eleventh-century Muslim philosopher known in the West as Avicenna, paying special attention to the ways he influenced theological, mystical, and literary thought in subsequent Islamic-and Western-intellectual and religious history. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CS; HPD; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231519
- ISBN
- 9780812231519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.64
€ 73.64
Paperback. Offers an exploration of the indissoluble link between war and sexuality based on over the years of interviews by the well-known Lebanese expatriate teacher, critic, and writer. This book refers to sexuality as the physical and psychological relations of men and women, and examines Middle Eastern customs involved in defining such relationships. Editor(s): Accad, Evelyne. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; JFC; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814706152
- ISBN
- 9780814706152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.86
€ 37.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 538 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; CJBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 7128 x 5499 x 814. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 538
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477309438
- ISBN
- 9781477309438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.52
€ 58.52
Hardcover. Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479877928
- ISBN
- 9781479877928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.75
€ 35.75
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSBH; HRJ; JFHF; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479889655
- ISBN
- 9781479889655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.62
€ 84.62
Paperback. Explores the psychology of prejudice and self-hate in the fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim, one of the key figures in modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. The book presents an analysis of the tension between realism and caricature in Mendele's portrayal of the Russian Jews under tsarist rule. Num Pages: 142 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2CS; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 235.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874774082
- ISBN
- 9781874774082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.83
€ 37.83
Paperback. A vivid panorama of the spiritual, theological, and intellectual concerns of the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry (950-1200) as represented in the work of thirteen poets. Editor(s): Goldstein, David. Translator(s): Goldstein, David. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2CSJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904113669
- ISBN
- 9781904113669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.10
€ 36.10
Hardcover. Presents the first English translation of two important texts, with a new critical edition based on several original manuscripts Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814729144
- ISBN
- 9780814729144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.14
€ 55.14
Paperback. Scripture is at the centre of many religions. This book looks at the function, development and implications of the centrality of text upon the Jewish community. It forms an introduction to Jewish hermeneutics, exploring shifts from the Bible to the Torah and biblical religion to rabbinic Judaism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; CFP; HRCG; HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674661127
- ISBN
- 9780674661127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.85
€ 45.99
€ 38.85
paperback. Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, this book attempts to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226773360
- ISBN
- 9780226773360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.67
€ 53.67
Hardcover. The 9th-century essayist, theologian and encyclopedist 'Amr b Bahr al-Jahiz has long been acknowledged as a master of early Arabic prose writing. This book looks at letters from one of the most unique minds of the Abbasid era that cover sectarian and ethnic rivalries, ethical questions, intoxicating beverages and daily life. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692743
- ISBN
- 9780748692743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.76€ 109.28
€ 109.76
€ 109.28
Series: My First Bilingual Book. Num Pages: 16 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2CXS; YBL. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 167 x 166 x 11. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Milet Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 16
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785080302
- ISBN
- 9781785080302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.71
€ 9.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251728
- ISBN
- 9780823251728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.35
€ 29.99
€ 27.35
Hardcover. Series: Islamic Studies Series. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 2CXS; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780522869293
- ISBN
- 9780522869293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.41
€ 61.41
Hardback. Editor(s): Donner, Fred M. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 2CSR; DSA; DSB; HBAH; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691640877
- ISBN
- 9780691640877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.28
€ 107.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3,700 entries. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2CSR; CBDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 81 x 13. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780781810449
- ISBN
- 9780781810449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.54
€ 10.54
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Saqi Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863561559
- ISBN
- 9780863561559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.41
€ 27.99
€ 25.41
Hardcover. The book combines a textbook of Middle Egyptian, containing vocabulary, texts for reading and translation exercises, with a most detailed and scholarly grammar book. Series: Egyptology: Griffith Institute. Num Pages: 682 pages, 2 plates. BIC Classification: 2CXG; CJBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 224 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1740. Series: Egyptology: Griffith Institute. 682 pages, 2 plates. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2CXG; CJBG. Dimension: 280 x 224 x 41. Weight: 1756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1957
- Publisher
- Griffith Institute
- Edition
- 3rd,REP
- Number of pages
- 682
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900416354
- ISBN
- 9780900416354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.91
€ 89.91
Paperback. Friedrich Junge's pioneering introduction to the grammar of Late Egyptian, the language of the New Kingdom, fills a longstanding gap in teaching works for Ancient Egyptian. The English translation of the second German edition makes the work available to a wide audience. Translator(s): Warburton, David. Num Pages: 392 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 2CXG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 172 x 24. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Griffith Institute United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900416859
- ISBN
- 9780900416859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
A Reference Grammar of Egyptian Arabic (Georgetown Classics in Arabic ...
Abdel-Massih, Ernest T., Abdel-Malek, Zaki N....
Paperback. Presents definitions of grammatical and linguistic terms for spoken Egyptian Arabic in dictionary form from 'active participles' through 'writing system'. This title includes various entries that feature definitions and examples of various grammatical features including phonology, morphology, and syntax. Series: Georgetown Classics in Arabic Languages and Linguistics Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2CSR; CJBG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589012608
- ISBN
- 9781589012608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.75
€ 56.75