Al-Mas'udi composed his 'Kitab al-Tanbih wal-ishraf' in the years 955 and 956, finishing it not long before his death. Based in part on earlier historical-geographical works, it offers a description of astronomical and meteorological phenomena; the divisions of the earth; the seas; ancient nations; ...

"Arabic is the only living language to have been taught in Dutch higher education for more than four centuries. Practical usefulness, however, has been a prerequisite from the start. Knowledge of Arabic was to promote Dutch interests in the Muslim world, or to help refute Islam. As a cognate of Clas ...

Murat Oجzyuجksel., Main Heritage Reading Room, HE3380.3.Z8 H4562 2014, Reference, Item-ID: i24475774, BIB-ID: 1799096, Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hippu the mouse invites Heppu the dog to live with him., Oili Tanninen ; [English translation by Dr. Emily Jeremiah]., "First published in 1967 by Otava Publishing Company Ltd with the Finnish title Hippu."--Title page verso., Main Juvenile-Picture Books, JP Tan, Book, Item-ID: i23987145, BIB-ID: 18 ...

Mediaeval Arabic block printing : state of the field / Karl Schaefer -- Fruher Druck mit arabischen Typen in Leipzig, 17.-18. Jahrhundert / Boris Liebrenz -- Enlightenment in the Ottoman context : Ibrahim Muteferrika and his intellectual landscape / Vefa Erginbas -- Waiting for Godot : the formation ...

In this book, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring - literacy, numeracy, expansion of knowledge, religion, political theory, oppression, liberation, and much more. The book is ordered chronologically and divided ...

Kitab al-Alaq al-nafisa / tasnif Abi Ali Ahmad b. Umar b. Rusta -- Kitab al-buldan / tasnif Ahmad b. Abi Yaqub b. Wadih al-Katib al-maruf bi-al-Yaqubi., auctore Abu Ali Ahmed ibn Omar : et Kitâb al-Boldân auctore Ahmed ibn abî Jakûb ibn Wâdhih al-Kâtib Al-Jakûbî., "M.J. de Goeje's Classic ed ...

This is the second edition by J.H. Kramers of the Arabic text of Ibn Hawqal’s Vi>Kitab Surat al-ard, the first BGA edition of which was published in 1873. The journeys of Abu l-Qasim Ibn Hawqal, who might have been a merchant, took him to North Africa, Spain and the southern edge of the Saha ...

compiled by M.J. de Goeje., Main Heritage Compact General, G93 .G36 2014, Reference, Item-ID: i22386336, BIB-ID: 2395523, In Arabic and Latin.

Little is known about the life of Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhim b. Muḥammad al-Iṣṭakhrī, the author of Kitāb al-Masalik wa l-mamālik , which was written towards the end of the first half of the 10th century CE. The work built on the earlier concept of the "atlas of Islam", which it developed furth ...

by Ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamadhānī = Mukhtaṣar kitāb al-buldān / taʼlīf Abī Bakr Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Faqīh., "M.J. de Goeje's classic edition (1885) with index and glossary.", Added title page: Compendium libri Kitâb al-boldân, auctore Ibn al-Fakîh al- ...