Guardians of the Tradition
Guardians of the Tradition

Author: James De Lorenzi

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1580465196

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Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day.

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - i
History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - i

Author: Carl Brockelmann

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13: 9004369791

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The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Literature of Travel and Exploration

Author: Jennifer Speake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 1425

ISBN-13: 1135456631

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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting
Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting

Author: A. Murtonen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9789004088993

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This is the third and final volume of the lexical part of the work. Section Bb contains comparative material to the root system from cognate languages, including sixteen Semitic and three Cushitic fairly well represented languages as well as Tuareg, Hausa, old Egyptian and Coptic quoted systematically; Omotic; Berber other than Tuareg, and Chadic other than Hausa likewise as groups; other Semitic and Cushitic less regularly; etymological and semantic comments follow dictionary entries; phonological discussion, including an attempt at the determination of pre-Semitic phonemes on the basis of actual attestation, is mainly concentrated in the introduction. Sections CDE contain the numerals (under 100), pronouns and particles, Hebrew material together with the comparative one and discussion after the entries.

Building between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Lands
Building between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Lands

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 900451645X

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This book explores the construction processes and the mechanisms of transmission of knowledge between the eastern and western Mediterranean lands from the late Roman period to the early centuries of Islam.