The Latin-Arabic Glossary of the Leiden University Library
Author: P. Sj. van Koningsveld
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13:
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Arabs and Arabists
Author: Alastair Hamilton
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-08
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9004498206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.
Latin Palaeography
Author: Bernhard Bischoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-04-12
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521367264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.
Arabic in Context
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9004343040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe writing of Arabic’s linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The present volume seeks to catalyse a dialogue between scholars in various fields who are interested in Arabic’s past and to illustrate how much there is to be gained by looking beyond the traditional sources and methods. It contains 15 innovative studies ranging from pre-Islamic epigraphy to the modern spoken dialect, and from comparative Semitics to Middle Arabic. The combination of these perspectives hopes to stand as an important methodological intervention, encouraging a shift in the way Arabic’s linguistic history is written.
Arabic Manuscripts
Author: Adam Gacek
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-06-24
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9004170367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArranged alphabetically by subject and/or concept and richly illustrated, the present vademecum deals with various aspects of Arabic manuscript studies. A companion volume to my recently published The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (2001) and its Supplement (2008), this work constitutes an indispensible aid to students and researchers.
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
Author: Adam Gacek
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-04-09
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9004165401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition
Author: Arie Schippers
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9789004098695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work deals extensively with the Arabic themes and literary devices used by Hebrew Andalusian poets in 11th century Muslim (and Christian) Spain. Special interest is devoted to the four main poets of the Hebrew Golden Age in Spain, namely Samuel Ha-Nagid, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra and Yehuda Ha-Lewi.
A Medieval Muslim Scholar at Work
Author: Etan Kohlberg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9789004095496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIbn t w s (d. 664/1266) was a famous Sh scholar and bibliophile. This book portrays his intellectual world and working methods, and reconstructs, as far as possible, his extensive library, which included many works now lost. Kohlberg's monograph is an important contribution to Sh studies and to the history of Arabic literature.
Silent Teachers
Author: Nil Ö. Palabıyık
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-03-17
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1000854264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSilent Teachers considers for the first time the influence of Ottoman scholarly practices and reference tools on oriental learning in early modern Europe. Telling the story of oriental studies through the annotations, study notes, and correspondence of European scholars, it demonstrates the central but often overlooked role that Turkish-language manuscripts played in the achievements of early orientalists. Dispersing the myths and misunderstandings found in previous scholarship, this book offers a fresh history of Turkish studies in Europe and new insights into how Renaissance intellectuals studied Arabic and Persian through contemporaneous Turkish sources. This story hardly has any dull moments: the reader will encounter many larger-than-life figures, including an armchair expert who turned his alleged captivity under the Ottomans into bestselling books; a drunken dragoman who preferred enjoying the fruits of the vine to his duties at the Sublime Porte; and a curmudgeonly German physician whose pugnacious pamphlets led to the erasure of his name from history. Taking its title from the celebrated humanist Joseph Scaliger’s comment that books from the Muslim world are ‘silent teachers’ and need to be explained orally to be understood, this study gives voice to the many and varied Turkish-language books that circulated in early modern Europe and proposes a paradigm-shift in our understanding of early modern erudite culture.
Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages
Author: Charles Burnett
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1040245285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations from Arabic at the end of the 10th century, progressing through 11th-century translations made in Southern Italy, translators working in Sicily and the Principality of Antioch at the beginning of the 12th century, the first of the 12th-century Iberian translators, the beginnings and development of 'professional' translation activity in Toledo, and the transfer of this activity from Toledo to Frederick II's entourage in the 13th century. Most of the articles include editions of texts that either illustrate the style and character of the translator or provide the source material for his biobibliography.
