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A History Of Ottoman Poetry, Volume I - 1300-1450

by E. J. W. Gibb

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 This first volume in E.J.W. Gibbâ€™s classic study of Ottoman Poetry, reissued here with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead, explores the period 1300 to around 1450.
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Persianate Prose And The Making Of Malay Muslim Literature - Text, Translation And Commentary Of The Durr Al-Majalis

by Majid (Associate Professor, Kyoto University) Daneshgar

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 Presents the most complete Persian edition and the first known English translation of the Durr al-Majalis
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Portrait Of Abu L-Qasim Al-Baghdadi Al-Tamimi

by Abu L-Mutahhar Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Azdi

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 New translation and commentary on the scandalous and often 'racy' 11th century tale of a Baghdadi party-crasher in Isfahan.
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Saint Paul And Contemporary European Philosophy - The Outcast And The Spirit

by Gert-Jan Van Der Heiden

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 Offers a new systematic account of the philosophical potential of Saint Paulâ€™s letters.
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Shi?Ite Legal Theory - Sources And Commentaries

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 Contains editions and commentaries of hitherto un-edited manuscripts from the various strands of the Shi?ite tradition of Islamic thought (Zaydi, Isma?ili and Twelver). A careful side-by-side reading of these texts and commentaries helps identify themes peculiar to the Shi?ite "family" of legal theories.
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Mission To The Lord Sophy Of Persia (1539 Â€“ 1542)

by Alexander H. Morton e Michel Membre

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 The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia.
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Uddat Al-Jalis Of Ibn Bishri - An Anthology Of Andalusian Arabic Muwashshat

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 This is an anthology of outstanding literary importance, probably the most valuable work of Arabic poetry to surface this century. It contains the largest and best collection of Andalusian Muwashshat , 354 in all, of which over 280 are not known from any other source. Arabic text.
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The Censure Of Speculative Theology Of Ibn Qudama - (Tahrim Al-Nazar Fi Kutub Al Al-Kalam)

by George Makdisi

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 Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn 'Aqil (d. 119).
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Mesa?Ir Us-Su?Ara Or Tezkere Of ?Asik Celebi

by Asik Celebi e G. M. Meredith-Owens

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 This sixteenth century biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets with comments on their style and examples of their work was one of Gibb's principle sources for Ottoman poetry in its most flourishing period. Turkish text.
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Mazandaran And Astarabad

by Charles (Emeritus Professor Of Persian History, University Of Cambridge) Melville e H. L. Rabino

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 MÃ¡zandarÃ¡n and AstarÃ¡bÃ¡d, originally published in 1928, gives an account of two remote and inaccessible Iranian provinces written by the diplomat and Persian scholar H. L. Rabino. Accompanied by a large-scale facsimile of the detailed original map.
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Three Shadow Plays By Muhammad Ibn Daniyal - Three Shadow Plays

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 These three plays display the kind of entertainment popular in medieval Egypt. This edition offers the complete text, edited over a long period by a number of scholars and provided with a critical apparatus. The language used entails great textual problems yet it rewards study, combining wit, dramatic entertainment and sophisticated poetry.
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Sanglax - A Persian Guide To The Turkish Language

by Gerard Clauson

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 Sanglax begins with a grammar of the variety of Turkish known as Catagay but the bulk of the work consists of a Turkish-Persian dictionary. Facsimile text in Persian and Turkish..
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Averroes - On The Harmony Of Religion And Philosophy

by George F. Hourani

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 In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific reasoning.
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The Qurâ€™An

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 The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. For Muslims it is the word of God revealed in Arabic by the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, and thence to mankind. Originally it was delivered orally: traditional sources indicate that Muhammad always recited his message.
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Mujun - Libertinism In Medieval Muslim Society And Literature

by Zoltan (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest) Szombathy

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 This book is about an aspect of mediaeval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujÃ™n (roughly 'libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence', etc.)
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Late Antiquity - Eastern Perspectives

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 Raises the Sasanian Empire (in what is now Iran) to its rightful prominence in late-antique studies.
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Averroesâ€™ Tahafut Al-Tahafut - (The Incoherence Of The Incoherence)

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 Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from CÃ³rdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one.
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Islamic Crosspollinations - Interactions In The Medieval Middle East

by Anna (Cuny Graduate Center) Akasoy e James (The Sir Thomas Adamsâ€™S Professor Of Arab, University Of Cambridge) Montgomery

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 Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity.
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The Qurâ€™An

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 The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. For Muslims it is the word of God revealed in Arabic by the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, and thence to mankind. Originally it was delivered orally: traditional sources indicate that Muhammad always recited his message.
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A Chronicle Of The Reign Of Shah 'Abbas Vol 2

by Fazli Beg Khuzani Isfahani

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A Chronicle Of The Reign Of Shah 'Abbas Vol 1

by Fazli Beg Khuzani Isfahani

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A History Of Ottoman Poetry, Volume Vi - Turkish Texts

by E. J. W. Gibb

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 Volume VI of E.J.W. Gibbâ€™s classic study of Ottoman Poetry â€" reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead â€" contains the original Turkish of poems translated by Gibb in volumes I-V.
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A History Of Ottoman Poetry, Volume V - Later 19th Century

by E. J. W. Gibb

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 Volume V of E.J.W. Gibbâ€™s classic study of Ottoman Poetry â€" here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead, covers the later 19th century.
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A History Of Ottoman Poetry, Volume Iv - 1700â€“1850

by E. J. W. Gibb

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 Volume IV of E.J.W. Gibbâ€™s classic study of Ottoman Poetry â€" here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead, covers the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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