Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones by Hoyland, Robert G.

Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780906094501)

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Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones by Hoyland, Robert G.

Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones

$70.00
Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones by Hoyland, Robert G.

Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Alan Jones

$70.00
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen essays on literature, linguistics, history and epigraphy. Contents include: Maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry (N Jamil); the Qu'ran as a source of law: the case of zakat (alms-tax) (Y Dutton); On the difficulty of knowing medieval Arab authors: the case of Abu I-Faraj and pseudo-Isfahani (H Kilpatrick); Mahfuz's urban battlegrounds (R Ostle); Inscriptions of companions of the prophet in the Merv Oasis (V Porter); Muslim jizya-payers in Christian Sicily (J Johns); The Mu'allaqat in the west: a brief bibliographical survey (H Bleaney); Theomnestus of Nicopolis, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, and the beginnings of Islamic veterinary science (R Hoyland); Historians and the Arabic biographical dictionary (P Auchterlonie).

Author: Robert G. Hoyland, Philip F. Kennedy
ISBN-10: 090609450X
ISBN-13: 9780906094501
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2004
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.03lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.98w x 1.01d
By Robert G. Hoyland
By Robert G. Hoyland
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Philip F. Kennedy is Professor of Arabic Literature at New York University. He is author of The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abu Nuwas and the literary tradition (1997) and General Editor of the Library of Arabic Literature, a joint project of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute and NYU Press.

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