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al-Masʻūdī's Kitāb al-Tanbīh wa l-ishrāf: Kitab al-Tanbih wa-al-israf, Kitāb al-Tanbīh wa l-ishrāf
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 studies in the Netherlands: a short history in portraits, 1580-1950, Netherlands: a short history in portraits, 1580-1950, Voortreffelijk en waardig. English. 2014
"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 ...
The Hejaz railway and the Ottoman empire: modernity, industrialisation and Ottoman decline
Murat Oجzyuجksel., Main Heritage Reading Room, HE3380.3.Z8 H4562 2014, Reference, Item-ID: i24475774, BIB-ID: 1799096, Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hippu, Hippu. Finnish
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 ...
Historical aspects of printing and publishing in languages of the Middle East: papers from the Third Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, University of Leipzig, September 2008
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 ...
A history of the book in 100 books
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 ...
Ibn Rusta's Kitab al-A'laq al-nafisa and Kitab al-Buldan by al-Ya'qubi =: Pars septima. Kitâb Al-Alâk an-Nafîsa VII
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 ...
Ibn Ḥawqal's Kitāb ṣūrat al-arḍ: Opus geographicum, Opus geographicum
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 ...
Indices, glossary and additions & corrections to BGA I vols. 1-3 =: Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part I-III, Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part I-III
compiled by M.J. de Goeje., Main Heritage Compact General, G93 .G36 2014, Reference, Item-ID: i22386336, BIB-ID: 2395523, In Arabic and Latin.
Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture
The new museology -- Framing a changing museology in the digital age -- Indianapolis Museum of Art -- Walker Art Center -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -- Museum of Modern Art -- Brooklyn Museum -- Greater than five : the Los Angeles county Museum of Art -- A balancing act., Susana Smith Bauti ...
The photobook: a history
"Photographers have been making photobooks--bound collections of their works--ever since the birth of photography in the early nineteenth century ... This publication tells the story of photography via the history of the photobook, revealing the ways in which photographers have influenced each other ...
Uncertain images: museums and the work of photographs
"Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art mu ...