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Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi and Fatimid Da'wa Poetry
By: Qutbuddin, Tahera
Published by: Brill Academic Publishers
This study analyzes the committed religio-political poetry of al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi, chief missionary for the Fatimids in the fifth/eleventh century, demonstrating his founding of the tradition of ''Fatimid da'wa (religious mission) poetry” that has flourished after him for a thousand years.
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Price: $184.00
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Arabische Dialektgeographie
By: Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred
Published by: Brill Academic Publishers
This volume is the first comprehensive and systematic description of the dialect geography of the Arabic language which discusses on the basis of 112 maps topics such as types and interpretation of maps, areal norms and their significance for Arabic and the delimitation of dialect borders.
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Price: $133.00
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The Case of Rhyme versus Reason
By: McKinney, Robert C.
Published by: Brill Academic Publishers
This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile ‘Abbasid poet Ibn al-Rumi (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.
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Price: $249.00
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Chorology
By: Sallis, John
Published by: Indiana University Press
In Chorology , John Sallis takes up one of the most enigmatic discourses in the history of Philosophy. The implications of the chorology are momentous and communicate with many of the most decisive issues in contemporary philosophical discussions.
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Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse
By: Buijs, Michel
Published by: Brill Academic Publishers
This study describes the usage of subclauses and participial clauses in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis, with additional examples from other texts by Xenophon, providing new insights into the distribution of these clauses by adopting a text grammar-oriented approach.
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Price: $139.00
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Comparative Semitic Philology in the Middle Ages
By: Maman, Aharon; Lyons, David (trans.)
Published by: Brill Academic Publishers
This volume deals with medieval comparative Semitic philology (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) as practised by Hebrew philologists in the Arabic speaking lands, from Iraq to Spain, discussing its development through the generations (10th-12th cent. CE), its technics and its theoretical basis.
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Price: $243.00
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Critical Notes on Plato's Politeia
By: Slings, S. R.; Boter, Gerard (ed.); van Ophuijsen, Johannes (ed.)
Published by: Brill Academic Publishers
This volume accompanies the new Oxford edition of Plato's Republic. It contains textual discussions of a large number of passages, in which problems of every kind are treated.
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Price: $142.00
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Die Hethitische Literatur
By: Haas, Volkert
Published by: Walter de Gruyter
Provides a compendium of Hittite literary texts of genres with detailed extracts and paraphrases, and furnishes a comprehensible non-specialist commentary. In his selection, the author takes account both of features, in particular of the traditions of motives, topoi in Ancient Greece, and in the Old Testament.
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The Distaff Side
By: Cohen, Beth
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
This study examines the different representations of women in the Odyssey and their significance within the context of the poem and Greek culture. A central theme of the book is the visualisation of the Odyssey's female characters by ancient artists.
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Price: $35.00
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Earl of Rochester
By: Farley-Hills, David
Published by: Routledge
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
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Price: $350.00
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