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Author : François de Blois
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0947593063
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Paul T. Keyser,Georgia L. Irby-Massie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134298037
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including entries which are not mentioned in any other reference work – resulting in a unique and hugely ambitious resource which will prove indispensable for anyone seeking the details of the history of ancient science. Additional features include a Glossary, Gazetteer, and Time-Line. The Glossary explains many Greek (or Latin) terms difficult to translate, whilst the Gazetteer describes the many locales from which scientists came. The Time-Line shows the rapid rise in the practice of science in the 5th century BCE and rapid decline after Hadrian, due to the centralization of Roman power, with consequent loss of a context within which science could flourish.
Author : Iain Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499071
A new critical look at Mani's life to establish a proper historical foundation for the study of this fascinating thinker.
Author : Nasrullah Munshi
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781624668104
"This masterful translation of one of the most popular books of world literature makes available to an English readership the animal tales known collectively as Kalila and Dimna. Named after the two jackals of Pancatantra fame, this collection of stories is based on a 12th-century Persian translation of an 8th-century original Arabic rendition by Ibn al-Muqaffa‘. Set within a frame narrative of counsels given to the Raja of India by his Brahmin minister, the engaging tales about cats and mice, storks and crabs, tortoises and geese, owls and crows, and princes and ascetics, function as cautionary illustrations of human predicaments and all-too-human vices and virtues. Far from being a collection of children’s fables, Kalila and Dimna is a Machiavellian mirror for princes containing advice on how to preserve oneself from one’s enemies and get ahead at court and in life. The dialogues that constitute the bulk of the narrative harbor a dramatic immediacy, exerting a powerful effect even on a modern-day reader." —Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto
Author : Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0791443566
This volume of al-Tabari’s History provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Saμsaμnids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia’s long history.
Author : Jennifer Burns,Derek Duncan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800345560
An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. In a world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual, and by the pressures of globalization, it has become difficult to study culture as primarily a national phenomenon. A Handbook offers students across Modern Languages an introduction to the kind of methodological questions they need to look at culture transnationally. Each of the short essays takes a key concept in cultural study and suggests how it might be used to explore and illuminate some aspect of identity, mobility, translation, and cultural exchange across borders. The authors range over different language areas and their wide chronological reach provides broad coverage, as well as a flexible and practical methodology for studying cultures in a transnational framework. The essays show that an inclusive, transnational vision and practice of Modern Languages is central to understanding human interaction in an inclusive, globalized society. A Handbook stands as an effective and necessary theoretical and thematically diverse glossary and companion to the ‘national’ volumes in the series.
Author : Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472507181
It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world – Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz – the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent. This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history.
Author : Francois De Blois
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135467128
This famous work from the Royal Asiatic Society is an indispensable tool for all serious students of Persian literature, history and culture, and a welcome companion to Persian literature in its most glorious period. This volume is the second, revised edition of three parts published in 1992 and 1994.
Author : Sameh Hanna,Hanem El-Farahaty,Abdel-Wahab Khalifa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317339823
Translation-related activities from and into Arabic have significantly increased in the last few years, in both scope and scale. The launch of a number of national translation projects, policies and awards in a number of Arab countries, together with the increasing translation from Arabic in a wide range of subject areas outside the Arab World – especially in the aftermath of the Arab Spring – have complicated and diversified the dynamics of the translation industry involving Arabic. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation seeks to explicate Arabic translation practice, pedagogy and scholarship, with the aim of producing a state-of-the-art reference book that maps out these areas and meets the pedagogical and research needs of advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as active researchers.
Author : Samah Selim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317620648
In the Middle East, translation movements and the debates they have unleashed on language, culture and the politics and practices of identity have historically been tied to processes of state formation and administration, in the form of patronage, policy and publishing. Whether one considers the age of regional empires centered in Baghdad or Istanbul, or that of the modern nation-state from Egypt to Iran, this relationship points to the historical role of translation as a powerful and flexible tool of cultural politics. "Nation and Translation in the Middle East" focuses on this important aspect of translation in the region, with special emphasis on translation movements and the production of modernity in a historical context defined by European imperialism, enlightenment universalism, and globalization. While the papers assembled in this special issue of "The Translator" each address specific translation histories and practices in the Middle East, the broader questions they raise regarding the location and the historicity of translation offer a fruitful intervention into contemporary debates in translation studies on difference, fidelity and the ethics of translation. The volume opens with two essays that situate translation at the intersection of national canons, post colonial cultural hegemonies and 'private' market or activist-based initiatives in Egypt and Turkey. Other contributions discuss the utility of translation paradigms as a counterweight to the dominant orientalist historiography of modern print culture in the Arab World; the role of the translator as political agent and social reformer in twentieth-century Egypt; and the relationship between language, translation and the politics of identity in the multi-ethnic and multilingual Islamicate contexts of the Abbasid and Mughal Empires. The volume also includes a general bibliography on translation and the Middle East.
Author : The Jalaluddin Rumi
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141936994
Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning.
Author : Julie Scott Meisami,Paul Starkey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415185726
This reference work covers the classical, transitional and modern periods. Editors and contributors cover an international scope of Arabic literature in many countries.
Author : Sharron Gu
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476602943
This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture. The thousands-of-years-old language is perhaps more highly developed and refined than any other on earth. This book focuses on what is unique about Arabic compared to other major languages of the world (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, English and Spanish) and how the distinct characteristics of Arabic took shape at various points in its history. The book provides a cultural background for understanding social and political institutions and religious beliefs--more influenced by the rhythms and depths of poetic language than other cultures--in the Middle East today.
Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004319318
Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands
Author : Eloïse Brac de la Perrière,Aïda El Khiari,Annie Vernay-Nouri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004498143
This book marks a major contribution to the study of Arabic illustrated manuscripts of Kalīla wa-Dimna and its Persian and Ottoman versions. The studies gathered in this volume showcase a wide diversity of approaches crossing textual investigation, codicological and iconographic study, and laboratory analysis. Ce livre constitue une contribution majeure à l'étude des manuscrits arabes illustrés de Kalīla wa-Dimna et de ses versions persane et ottomane. Les articles rassemblés dans ce volume montrent une grande diversité d'approches, croisant investigation textuelle, étude codicologique et iconographique et analyses physico-chimiques.