Category: Islamic Studies

LIBER AMICORUM Studies in Honour of Professor Dr. C. J. Bleeker.

Price: $80.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1969

Seller ID: 9333

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Dust-soiling to top of textblock. Spine slightly sunned. A couple of pages are slightly stained (small dot). ; Published on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of the history of religions and the phenomenology of religion at the university of Amsterdam. ; Studies in the History of Religions (Supplements to Numen) XVII; 324 pages; List of Prof. Bleeker's publications (p. 1-4) --Professor C. J. Bleeker, a personal appreciation, by G. Widengren. --Are the Bororo parrots or are we? By Th. P. Van Baaren. --Le Professeur W. B. Kristensen et l'Ancien Testament, by M. A. Beek. --Pour l'histo...
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ABD AL-LATIF AL-BAGDADI'S BEARBEITUNG VON BUCH LAMBDA DER ARISTOTELISCHEN METAPHYSIK

By: Abd Al-Latif Al-Baghdadi, Muwaffaq Al-Din; Angelika Neuwirth

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag : 1976

Seller ID: 25690

ISBN-13: 9783515021081

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

2 small dampstains to base of spine. Pencil notes to a couple of pages. Some pages tanned. ; Akademie Der Wissenschaften Und Der Literatur. Veröffentlichungen Der Orientalischen Kommission Band XXVII; 273 pages
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ABD AL-LATIF AL-BAGDADI'S BEARBEITUNG VON BUCH LAMBDA DER ARISTOTELISCHEN METAPHYSIK

By: Abd Al-Latif Al-Baghdadi, Muwaffaq Al-Din; Angelika Neuwirth

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag : 1976

Seller ID: 25916

ISBN-13: 9783515021081

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine a bit browned. Some pages lightly tanned. ; Akademie Der Wissenschaften Und Der Literatur. Veröffentlichungen Der Orientalischen Kommission Band XXVII; 273 pages
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MARSDEN'S NUMISMATA ORIENTALIA ILLUSTRATA A Guide to Islamic and Oriental Coins with Values

By: Album, Stephen

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Attic Books : 1977

Seller ID: 2815

ISBN-13: 9780915018161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Mild Staining to boards. Mild water damage along inner hinges but has not penetrated text. ; Chapters include Sikka, Sassanian, Arab, Byzantine, Umayyad, Abbasid, Sa'di Sharifs, Fatimids, Ayyubids, Mamluks and more... ; 318 pages
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MOHAMED: THE PROPHET Illustrated.

By: Ali Shah, Sirdar Ikbal

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Wright & Brown : 1932

Seller ID: 7166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Slight bowing to boards. Very light foxing to endpapers. ; Looks at the times and life of Muhammad, the prophet and his founding of Islam. ; 296 pages
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RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THREE RELIGIONS IN CONCORD AND CONFLICT Volume I: Judaism and Christianity & Volume II: Islam

By: Arberry, A. J.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1969

Seller ID: 3191

ISBN-13: 9780521074001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Book descriptions are pasted to front feps of both volumes leaving adhesive stains. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2023; 1360 pages; These volumes survey the three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their relationship with each other, in concord and conflict during the last hundred years. Since Islam is the dominant faith, the term 'Middle East' denotes the social and cultural faiths as well as western civilization and communism, rather than a precise geographical area. Thus central Asia, and India, Pa...
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ARCHIMEDIS [ARCHIMEDES] OPERA OMNIA CUM COMMENTARIIS EUTOCII. VOL. IV: Archimedes: Über Einander Berührende Kreise. Aus Dem Arabischen Übersetzt Und Mit Anmerkungen Versehen. Mit 14 Faksimiletafeln

By: Archimedes; J. L. Heiberg & Yvonne Dold-Samplonius & Heinrich Hermelink & Matthias Schramm (Eds. )

Price: $70.00

Publisher: B. G. Teubner : 1975

Seller ID: 15791

ISBN-13: 9783519010654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear. Else fine. Plates at end. ; Text is in German with plates in Arabic. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 68 pages
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ARCHIMEDIS [ARCHIMEDES] OPERA OMNIA CUM COMMENTARIIS EUTOCII. VOL. IV: Archimedes: Über Einander Berührende Kreise. Aus Dem Arabischen Übersetzt Und Mit Anmerkungen Versehen. Mit 14 Faksimiletafeln

By: Archimedes; J. L. Heiberg & Yvonne Dold-Samplonius & Heinrich Hermelink & Matthias Schramm (Eds. )

Price: $70.00

Publisher: B. G. Teubner : 1975

Seller ID: 27553

ISBN-13: 9783519010654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Text is in German with plates in Arabic. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 68 pages
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[ARISTOTLE] ARISTOTELIS: DE COELO ET METEOROLGICA [METEOROLOGICA] Edidit Et Adnotatione Critica Auxit 'Abdurrahman Badawi.

By: Aristotle; 'Abdurrahman Badawi

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Imp. MISR : 1961

Seller ID: 18046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light creasing to wraps. Browning to wraps. Pencil marginalia and underlining to some pages. Dampstaining to corner of Arabic titlepage. 1 small stain to English titlepage. Book has been very smartly rebound in quarter faux-leather spine with gilt lettering and marbled boards. Pages tanned. 1 lined page with Dutch writing has been bound after Arabic titlepage. Scholar's small bookplate to English titlepage. ; Text entirely in Arabic. ; Islamica 28; 387 pages
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RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM Art of the Mamluks

By: Atil, Esin

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press : 1981

Seller ID: 35870

ISBN-13: 9780874742138

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Foxing to wraps. Spine sunned and discolored. ; 9.8 X 9.6 X 0.9 inches; 287 pages
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ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL AZIZ IN WORDS & PICTURES

By: Aziz, Abdullah Bin Abdul

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Riyadh, Saudi Desert House Agency : 1980

Seller ID: 2449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Minor edgewear. Bumping to base of spine. ; Looks at the life and actions of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Heavy Book. ; 269 pages
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IDEAE PLATONICAE Edidit Et Prolegomenis Instruxit 'abdurrahman Badawi

By: Badawi, Abdurrahman (Ed. )

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Imprimerie De La Bibliothèque Égyptienne : 1947

Seller ID: 9381

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Book has been neatly rebound in red boards with original wraps affixed to boards. Original wraps are browned. Original wrap spine is scuffed. Clean text. Boards are fine. ; Text is in Arabic. Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire. ; Textes Et Traductions D'Auteurs Orientaux Tome XII; 159 pages
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RAYMOND III OF TRIPOLIS AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM (1140-1187)

By: Baldwin, Marshall Whithed

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Adolf M. Hakkert : 1969

Seller ID: 35515

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Faint foxing to front inner cover. ; Reprint of the 1936 edition. The purpose of this biography is to explain the situation in the Levant during the years preceding the fall of Jerusalem. This is done by an analysis of the character of Raymond III of Tripolis, and by an interpretation of his motives and actions, and those of his associates in a time of crisis. Includes a detailed description of the battle of Hattin. ; 177 pages
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ANGLO-SAXON PERCEPTIONS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD

By: Beckett, Katharine Scarfe

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 2003

Seller ID: 2381

ISBN-13: 9780521829403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England; 1 x 9 x 5.8 Inches; 284 pages; Katherine Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, Beckett argues that the first perceptions of Arabs, Ismaelites and Saracens were derived from Christian exegesis. These perceptions preconditioned Western expressions of hostility and superiority towards peoples of the Islamic world, and these received ideas prevailed over actual experience.
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CRUSADER ARCHAEOLOGY The Material Culture of the Latin East

By: Boas, Adrian J.

Price: $58.50

Publisher: Routledge : 1999

Seller ID: 360

ISBN-13: 9780415173612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book has light bumping to corners and spine ends. Otherwise in Near Fine condition . ; One of the most fascinating and intriguing aspects of historical research is the study of how invading societies adapt to a strange environment, undergoing change themselves as well as influencing their new neighbours and surroundings. From the end of the eleventh century there were Christian states in the Levant which were hybrid societies resulting from the meeting of the very different cultures of the East and West. Although a wealth of literature has been written on the Crusading movement affording a cle...
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LATE ANTIQUITY A Guide to the Postclassical World

By: Bowersock, G.W. & Oleg Grabar & G. W. Bowersock

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Belknap Press : 2000

Seller ID: 18210

ISBN-13: 9780674511736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book has very light shelfwear else fine. DJ has 1 tiny chip and faint crease along upper edge. ; The first book of its kind, this richly informative guide to the world of late antiquity offers the most recent scholarship to the researcher along with sheer reading pleasure to the browser. In eleven comprehensive essays and in over 500 encyclopedic entries, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, a...
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THE LATIN TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIC VERSION OF EUCLID'S ELEMENTS COMMONLY ASCRIBED TO GERARD OF CREMONA Introduction, Edition and Critical Apparatus

By: Busard, H. L. L.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1984

Seller ID: 9398

ISBN-13: 9789004075962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

503 columns. Latin text, translation and editorial matter in English. ; Asfar, Deel 2; 503 pages
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GREEK, ROMAN, AND ISLAMIC COINS FROM SARDIS

By: Buttrey, Theodore V. & Ann Johnston & Kenneth M. Mackenzie & Michael L. Bates

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : 1982

Seller ID: 513

ISBN-13: 9780674363052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Cover has adhesive stain from former sticker on bottom corner. Normal shelfwear and rubbing. ; Publication of coins found at Sardis from the 1958 to August 18th, 1972. The Byzantine section includes only coins from the 1969 season onward. ; Archaeological Exploration of Sardis; 274 pages
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L'ARABIE DU SUD: HISTOIRE ET CIVILISATION Tome 1. Le Peuple Yéménite Et Ses Racines

By: Chelhod, Joseph Et Un Groupe D'Auteurs

Price: $30.00

Publisher: G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose : 1984

Seller ID: 5826

ISBN-13: 9782706808548

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light tanning to pages. Minor shelfwear. ; Islam D'Hier Et D'Aujourd'hui; Vol. 1; 281 pages
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BYZANTINE LIBYA AND THE MARCH OF THE ARABS TOWARDS THE WEST OF NORTH AFRICA

By: Christides, Vassilios

Price: $140.00

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports : 2000

Seller ID: 7493

ISBN-13: 9781841711331

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very light knocking to bottom front corner else Fine. ; British Archaeological Reports BAR International Series 851; 112 pages; A detailed study of Byzantine Africa and its conquest by the Arabs beginning in 641/642. Professor Christides assesses the political situation on the eve of the first Arab raid, the raids themselves and the sources available for studying them, as well as the causes and consequences of the Byzantine loss of North Africa and the integration of Arabic and Islamic cultures. The study focuses primarily on the regions of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan (roughly modern-da...
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THE CONQUEST OF CRETE BY THE ARABS (CA. 824) A TURNING POINT IN THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN BYZANTIUM AND ISLAM

By: Christides, Vassilios

Price: $315.00

Publisher: Akademia Athenon : 1984

Seller ID: 28622

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Faint crease to front wrap. Minor edgewear to wraps. Light shelfwear. ; Indispensible for Byzantine and Islamic history. ; 265 pages
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THE MARTYRS OF CÓRDOBA Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion

By: Coope, Jessica A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : 1995

Seller ID: 2984

ISBN-13: 9780803214712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Small mark ~1cm to front of DJ (ink? ). Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. Publisher's remainder mark to bottom of textblock (black felt ink line) else Fine. ; 0.68 x 8.78 x 5.78 Inches; 115 pages; Between 850 and 859 (Christian Era) , the Muslim government of Córdoba ordered the execution of forty-eight Christians. With few exceptions, these Christians invited execution by committing capital offenses: some appeared before the Muslim authorities to denounce Mohammed; others, Christian children of mixed Islamic-Christian marriages, publicly proclaimed their Christ...
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GESCHICHTE DER PHILOSOPHIE IM ISLAM

By: De Boer, T. J.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Fr. Frommanns Verlag : 1901

Seller ID: 9570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Rebound in dark green cloth with (original? ) Leather title label. Fraying to spine with tears to top of spine cover (1 & 2 cm). A few marks in green pencil and small clipping affixed to ffep. Very light foxing to endpapers and very light pencil marginalia on a few pages. ; 191 pages
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ENTRE ORIENT ET OCCIDENT: LA PHILOSOPHIE ET LA SCIENCE GRÉCO-ROMAINES DANS LE MONDE ARABE. Huit Exposés Suivis De Discussions Par Adamson, Peter/ Hugonnard-Roche, Henri/ De Smet, Daniel, D'Ancona, Cristina/ Eichner, Heidrun/ Orthmann, Eva/ Rudolph, Ulrich/ Boudon-Millot, Véronique.

By: Derron, Pascale & Richard Goulet & Ulrich Rudolph & Christoph Riedweg (Eds.0

Price: $97.00

Publisher: Fondation Hardt : 2011

Seller ID: 28173

ISBN-13: 9782600007573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Entretiens Sur L'Antiquité Classique Tome LVII; 406 pages
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THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS

By: Donner, Fred McGraw

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1981

Seller ID: 7167

ISBN-13: 9780691053271

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Top corners are bumped. Ffep has been pasted down to front inner board. White sticker applied to inner page to conceal markings. ; Presents a description of the early Islamic conquest movement, from its beginnings under the Prophet Muhammad (ca. A. D. 570-632) through the conquest of the Fertile Crescent. It attempts to do two things: first, to provide a new interpretation of the origins and nature of the Islamic conquest movement, and second, to establish as definitively as the sources will allow the course of two chapters in the early conquests, those of Syria and Iraq. ; Princeton Studies o...
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EMBRICON DE MAYENCE: LA VIE DE MAHOMET Éditée Par Guy Cambier

By: Embrico Of Mainz; Guy Cambier (Ed. )

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Latomus : 1961

Seller ID: 15639

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pages unopened. Very minor shelfwear. Else fine. ; Collection Latomus Volume 52; 91 pages
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EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE ISLAMISCHE GESCHICHTE

By: Endress, Gerhard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: C. H. Beck : 1982

Seller ID: 9620

ISBN-13: 9783406085598

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light ding to bottom back edge of wraps. Spine slightly sunned. ; 6 Karten u. 1 genealogischen Tafel. ; Beck'sche Elementarbücher; 346 pages
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7000 ANNI D'ARTE IRANICA

By: Ente Manifestazioni Milanesi

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Bramante Editrice : 1963

Seller ID: 18376

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair

Spine has been reinforced with clear tape (that has now browned). Wraps are tattered with Tears, rubbing, and chipping. Endpapers have dampstaining to edges. Internally VG. Reading copy only. ; Mostra realizzata in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano per il Medio e l'Estremo Oriente. Milano - Palazzo reale, Maggio-Giugno 1963. Ente Manifestazioni Milanesi. Text in Italian. Official greeting by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, in Persian and in Italian. Historical introduction by R. Ghirshman. ; 183 pages
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SEXUAL LIFE IN OTTOMAN SOCIETY

By: Erdogan, Sema Nilgun

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Donence : 1996

Seller ID: 7528

ISBN-13: 9789757054009

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Small sticker to front wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; 144 pages; The mysterious sex life of Ottoman society has remained a taboo subject until recent years, but even now it is not truly unveiled. Beyond the facaed of convnetional relations, the sexual life of the Ottoman was surpisingly rich and colorful. This book reveals the colourful sex lives of the Ottomans, men and women, with photos and colour illustrations, and essays and poetry of the time. An enlightening and amusing read.
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MUSLIM NAVAL ORGANISATION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN From the Seventh to the Tenth Century A. D.

By: Fahmy, Aly Mohamed

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Cairo, National Publication & Printing House : 1966

Seller ID: 7140

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very minor shelfwear with light browning to wraps. Pages almost all uncut except for 1 page clumsily opened. ; Contents: Arsenals and Naval Centres in Egypt; Arsenals and Naval Centres in Syria, Africa, and Crete; Materials for Shipbuilding; Naval Organisation; Muslim Mediterranean Warships; Appendix: Forests in Egypt; Names of Ships of Tulunid Fleet; Names of Ships mentioned by Muqaddasi; 204 pages
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MUSLIM NAVAL ORGANISATION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN From the Seventh to the Tenth Century A. D.

By: Fahmy, Aly Mohamed

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Cairo, National Publication & Printing House : 1966

Seller ID: 7196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Copy appears to have been rebound in black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Original wraps within. Small white blank sticker to titlepage. ; Contents: Arsenals and Naval Centres in Egypt; Arsenals and Naval Centres in Syria, Africa, and Crete; Materials for Shipbuilding; Naval Organisation; Muslim Mediterranean Warships; Appendix: Forests in Egypt; Names of Ships of Tulunid Fleet; Names of Ships mentioned by Muqaddasi; 204 pages
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MUSLIM SEA POWER IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN From the Seventh to the Tenth Century A. D.

By: Fahmy, Aly Mohamed

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Cairo, National Publication & Printing House : 1966

Seller ID: 7197

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Rebound in black boards with gilt lettering to spine with original wraps within. 2 Blank white stickers covering circulation numbers- no other markings. ; The first chapter is a brief account of pre-Islamic Arabian navigation, the second chapter shows the beginnings of Muslim sea power made possible by the development of Islam into a great Empire, the third chapter deals with the rivalry between the Muslim and Byzantine sea powers for maritime supremacy, and the fourth chapter is a study of Muslim and Byzantine naval strategies. ; 214 pages
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FESTGABE FÜR HANS-RUDOLF SINGER Zum 65. Geburtstag Am 6. April 1990 Überreicht Von Seinen Freunden Und Kollegen. Teil 1; Publikationen Des Fachbereichs Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft Der Universität Mainz, Reihe A, Band 13. Teil 2.

By: Forstner, Martin (Hrsg. )

Price: $130.00

Publisher: Peter Lang : 1991

Seller ID: 4736

ISBN-13: 9783631435847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Minor rubbing to boards. Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Essays in German with some essays in English, French and Spanish. Aus dem Inhalt: Arabische Dialektologie und Philologie - Orientalische Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte. Authors: W. Diem, A. A. Ambros, L. Kropfitsch, H. Eisenstein, A. A. Bloch, F. Meier, W. Eilers +, W. Fischer, P. Guichard, J. Blau, H. Palva, O. Jastrow, M. Woidich, S. M. Rizk, P. Behnstedt, M. Forstner, J. Martínez Ruiz, R. Kontzi, E. Wagner, J. Albrecht, K. P. Linder, N. Salnikow, P. Kunitzsch, J. Schwend, G. H. Blanke, H. Horst, B. Hartmann, D. U. M. Kellermann, J....
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EMPIRE TO COMMONWEALTH Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

By: Fowden, Garth

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1993

Seller ID: 3345

ISBN-13: 9780691069890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Light bump to top corner; This study explores how powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen empires from 2nd-9th centuries AD, and how tensions between orthodoxy and heresy broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the more pluralistic commonwealths of Christendom and Islam. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 224 pages
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THE RHETORIC OF POWER IN LATE ANTIQUITY Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World

By: Frakes, Robert M. & Elizabeth Depalma Digeser & Justin Stephens (Eds. )

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies : 2010

Seller ID: 7542

ISBN-13: 9781848854093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A couple of tiny dots to textblock (as published? ). Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. ; Library of Classical Studies; 320 pages; Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the crisis of Roman Empire in the third century to the Middle Ages, has traditionally been considered only in terms of the "decline" from classical standards. Recent classical scholarship strives to consider this period on its own terms. Taking the reign of Constantine the Great as its starting point, this book examines the unique intersection of rhetoric, religion and politics in Late Antiquity. Expert scholars come ...
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ALADDIN'S LAMP How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World

By: Freely, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : 2009

Seller ID: 16717

ISBN-13: 9780307265340

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Aladdin?s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B. C. And, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated the works of these Greek thinkers into Arabic, spreading their ideas throughout the Islamic world from Central Asia to Spain, with many Muslim scientists, m...
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THE ARABIC MANUSCRIPT TRADITION -- SUPPLEMENT A Glossary of Technical Terms and Bibliography, Supplement

By: Gacek, Adam

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers : 2008

Seller ID: 3357

ISBN-13: 9789004165403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Unwrapped in Plastic. ; Handbook of Oriental Studies/handbuch Der Orientalistik; Vol. 95; 0.6 x 9.6 x 6.4 Inches; 304 pages; The present work supplements the original volume of The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (AMT) , both its glossary of technical terms and bibliography. It includes new entries of technical terms, additional definitions of, and/or citations for, the entries already found in AMT, and recent publications on various aspects of Arabic manuscript studies arranged by subject. Among additional features there are illustrations of various Arabic letterforms and an alphabetical index o...
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A THEORY OF HISTORY AND SOCIETY With Special Reference to the Chronographia of Michael Psellus; 11th-Century Byzantium and a Related Section on Islamic Ethics

By: Gadolin, A. R.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Adolf M. Hakkert : 1987

Seller ID: 14494

ISBN-13: 9789025609061

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Bump to top of spine and rear upper corner. Foxing to top of textblock and spine. ; 224 pages
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VORLESUNGEN ÜBER DEN ISLAM

By: Goldziher, Ignaz

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft : 1963

Seller ID: 9371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Spine slightly sunned. Minor soiling to back board. ; Unchanged reprint of 1925 2nd edition. ; 406 pages
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DER ISLAM IM MITTELALTER

By: Grunebaum, G. E. Von (Hrsg. )

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Artemis : 1963

Seller ID: 5418

ISBN-13: 9783760845081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Former owner's name stamp has been deleted. Former scholar's name below (Peter H. Salus). Light browning to spine. Very light foxing to inner covers. ; Text in german. ; Die Bibliothek Des Morgenlandes; 651 pages
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THE PIRENNE THESIS Analysis, Criticism, And Revision

By: Havighurst, Alfred F.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: D. C. Heath : 1958

Seller ID: 1712

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Creasing to front cover. Corners lightly lifting. ; Contents: Delisle Burns: The first Europe; Rostovtzeff: The Terms Decay and Decline and Fall; Henri Pirenne: from Medieval Cities, from Mohammed and Charlemagne; Lestocquoy: Origins of Medieval Civilization and the Problem of Continuity; St. L. B. Moss: Economic Consequences of the Barbarian Invasions; Norman H. Baynes: M. Pirenne and the Unity of the Mediterranean World; Robert S. Lopez: Mohammed and Charlemagne: a revision, East and West in the early Middle Ages; Lynn White, Jr. : Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages; Daniel C. Denne...
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DIE PHILOSOPHIE DES ISLAM In Ihren Beziehungen Zu Den Philosophischen Weltanschauungen Des Westlichen Orients

By: Horten, Max

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Ernst Reinhardt : 1924

Seller ID: 9365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Light bumping to corners. Light foxing. Minor shelfwear. DJ has edgewear with chipping and small piece torn off along upper edge. ; Geschichte Der Philosophie in Einzeldarstellungen ; Abt. 1, Bd. 4; 385 pages
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DIE KLASSISCHE ANTIKE IN DER TRADITION DES ISLAM

By: Klein-Franke, Felix

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft : 1980

Seller ID: 9320

ISBN-13: 9783534080625

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Minor browning and rubbing to spine. Former owner's name to ffep. ; Contents: Das 15. Und 16. Jahrhundert; Das 17. Und 18. Jahrhundert; Das 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert; Schlussbetrachtung und Ausblick. ; Erträge Der Forschung, Band 136; 180 pages
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TABIT IBN QURRA`S ARABISCHE ÜBERSETZUNG DER ARITHMETIKE EISAGOGE DES NIKOMACHOS VON GERASA ZUM ERSTEN MAL HERAUSGEGEBEN

By: Kutsch, Wilhelm

Price: $180.00

Publisher: Imprimerie Catholique : 1958

Seller ID: 9383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Book has been rebound in light grey boards with original wraps affixed to boards and backstrip. Wear to original wraps (rubbing and flaking in places) but boards are unaffected. Internally fine. ; This book is a critical edition with Greek dictionary of the 1st century Greek philosopher Nicomachus' introduction to arithmetic in Ibn Qurra's translation. ; Recherches Publiées Sous La Direction De L`institut De Lettres Orientales De Beyrouth, Tome IX; 360 pages
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ALFARABI'S COMMENTARY OF ARISTOTLE'S PERI EPMENEIAS (DE INTERPRETATIONE) Edited with an Introduction

By: Kutsch, Wilhelm & Stanley Marrow

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Imprimerie Catholique : 1971

Seller ID: 19967

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Spine browned. Tears and chipping to wraps with a bit of loss. Some pages corner creased. ; The Arabic text here presented is of importance for an adequate understanding of Alfarabi's thought and his technical terminology and for a better appreciation between Greek and Arabic philosophy. The grasp of the real significance of Greek terms in their Arabic context is indispensable for the study of the "Second Teacher's" subsequent commentaries on the Stagirite. Arabic Text. ; Recherches De L'Institut De Lettres Orientales De Beyrouth Tome XIII; 263 pages
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SOME RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF ISLAM A Collection of Articles

By: Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub : 1981

Seller ID: 387

ISBN-13: 9789004063297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Staining on cover from former adhesive sticker. ; Contents include: 'Umar b. Al-Khattab-- Paul of Islam? ; The Religious Dialectics of the Hadjdj; Muslim festivals; Is there a Concept of Redemption in Islam? ; The Sanctity of Jerusalem in Islam; Judaism and Islam-- some Aspects of Mutual Cultural Influences; Contemporary religious Thought among the 'Ulama of Al-Azhar; Modern Muslim attitudes toward the Ka'ba and the Hadjdj: the rise of Neo-Fundamentalism in Islam. ; Studies in the History of Religions; 181 pages
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PALESTINE UNDER THE MOSLEMS. A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A. D. 650 to 1500

By: Le Strange, Guy & Walid Khalidy

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Khayats : 1965

Seller ID: 2094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Top corners are bumped. Description of book has been pasted to inner cover. ; Translated from the Works of The Medieval Arab Geographers. This is an anthology of writings on the geography and architecture of Syria and Palestine by medievla hands. The text is based on the original Arabic and Persian, dating to the period 650 A. D. -- 1500 A. D. Biblical scholars will be fascinated by glimpses of familiar sites seen through the eyes of Moslem geographers and pilgrims. ; Khayats oriental reprints; 604 pages
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WAR AND SOCIETY IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, 7TH-15TH CENTURIES

By: Lev, Yaacov (Ed. )

Price: $225.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1997

Seller ID: 8056

ISBN-13: 9789004100329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light bumping to bottom corners else Fine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; The Medieval Mediterranean 9; 412 pages; Focusing on the interplay between war and society in the Eastern Mediterranean, this text covers the 7th to 15th centuries, a period which witnessed the Arab conquests, the Seljuk invasion, the Crusades, and the Mongol incursions. A synthesis is offered of trends in military technology and its effect on society in this period, providing for medievalists an Oriental context to the military aspects of the Crusades.
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LES RELATIONS DES CHRÉTIENS AVEC LES ARABES DE L'AFRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE AU MOYEN AGE Recueillis Par Ordre De L'Empereur Et Publies Avec Une Introduction Historique

By: Mas Latrie, M. Louis De

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Burt Franklin : 2001

Seller ID: 2987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Mild soiling to textblock of set else both volumes are Fine. ; Originally published in Paris 1866 en Francais. Traites de Paix et de commerce et documents divers concernant...; 2 Volume Set. Burt Franklin Research & Source Works Series #63; Vol. 1 & 2; 1.4 x 8.25 x 5.25 Inches; 563 pages
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ARABISCHE PHILOSOPHIE

By: Menasce, P.J. De

Price: $11.00

Publisher: A. Francke AG : 1948

Seller ID: 9393

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine slightly browned. Wraps have minor edgewear with a few chips and small closed tears. ; Bibliography of works on Arabic philosophy. ; Bibliographische Einführungen in Das Studium Der Philosophie; 49 pages
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