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Book Biblical Repertory

Download or read book Biblical Repertory written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Muslim Relations  A Bibliographical History Volume 13 Western Europe  1700 1800

Download or read book Christian Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History Volume 13 Western Europe 1700 1800 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Volume 13 (CMR 13) covering Western Europe in the period 1700-1800 is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and appraisals of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 13, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Karoline Cook, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Emma Gaze Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Radu Păun, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Ann Thomson, Carsten Walbiner.

Book Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes  Spain  Turkey  India and Persia

Download or read book Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes Spain Turkey India and Persia written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of mainly 17th to early 20th-century Western published descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, charting decoration, dilapidation and restoration, as well as the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East.

Book Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes  Volume 2

Download or read book Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes Volume 2 written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.

Book Richard Pococke   s Letters from the East  1737 1740

Download or read book Richard Pococke s Letters from the East 1737 1740 written by Rachel Finnegan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke’s famous eastern voyage from 1737-40, together with updated biographical accounts of the author and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles).

Book English Explorers in the East  1738 1745

Download or read book English Explorers in the East 1738 1745 written by Rachel Finnegan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan offers an account of the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other. Making use of historical records, Finnegan examines the personal and professional motives of the three authors for producing their eastern travels; their methods of researching, drafting, and publicising their works while still abroad; their relationships with each other, both while travelling and on their return to England; and the legacy of their combined works. She also provides a survey of the main features (both textual and visual) of the travel books themselves.

Book Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium

Download or read book Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium written by Mat Immerzeel and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The congresses organised every four years under the auspices of the International Association for Coptic Studies (IACS) are the main forum for scholars of Egyptian Christian life and culture through the ages. The proceedings of the seventh congress, which was held in Leiden in 2000, comprise ninety-nine papers, reflecting the growth and diversification of Coptic studies worldwide. They include valuable and sometimes groundbreaking essays in topics of, for example, Coptic language, literature, monasticism and archaeology. A particularly noteworthy and important feature of the present proceedings are the state-of-the-art reviews of current trends and achievements in the main fields of the discipline, written by invited experts and accompanied by extensive bibliographies. These review articles cover aspects of Coptic studies as diverse as papyrology, gnosticism, liturgy, Copto-Arabic and art history. They turn these two volumes into real reference books, indispensable for every scholar of early Church history, late antiquity and Near Eastern Christianity.

Book French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century written by Edhem Eldem and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth analysis of French trade in Istanbul in the eighteenth century deals extensively with the nature and mechanisms of this trade, Ottoman monetary and financial history, bills of exchange, Ottoman traders and guilds, and Ottoman economic integration with Europe.

Book divine creatures

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  • Author : salima ikram
  • Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9789774248580
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book divine creatures written by salima ikram and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. This book draws together studies on the different types of animal mummies, the methods of mummification, and the animal cemeteries located at sites throughout Egypt.

Book The Life and Works of Robert Wood

Download or read book The Life and Works of Robert Wood written by Rachel Finnegan and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides the general reader with a source book for the fascinating life and career of a much-neglected figure in the realm of Irish eighteenth-century travels and antiquarianism.

Book Haifa in the Late Ottoman Period  1864 1914

Download or read book Haifa in the Late Ottoman Period 1864 1914 written by Mahmoud Yazbak and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a history of Haifa during that crucial part of the nineteenth century when Europe's penetration of Palestine combined with Istanbul's centralization efforts to alter irrevocably the social fabric of the country and change its political destiny. After tracing the town's beginnings in the early eighteenth century, the author painstakingly reconstructs from the few sijill volumes that have survived vital aspects of Ottoman Haifa's society and administration. A fresh look at the town's demography is followed by an in-depth discussion of the way inter-communal relations developed after the 1864 Vilāyets Law had brought a restructuring of the sources of elite power. The author's findings on the social status of Haifa's Muslim women significantly add to the vibrant picture of economic activities we now know urban Muslim women in the Ottoman Empire were involved in.

Book Measuring the New World

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  • Author : Neil Safier
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-11-15
  • ISBN : 0226733564
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Measuring the New World written by Neil Safier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.

Book The First European

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  • Author : Pierre Briant
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-02
  • ISBN : 0674972864
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The First European written by Pierre Briant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A truly remarkable forgotten chapter of European intellectual history, laid out with passion and integrity.” (The Wall Street Journal) The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in the minds of eighteenth-century intellectuals and philosophers, Alexander was the first European: a successful creator of empire who opened the door to new sources of trade and scientific knowledge, and an enlightened leader who brought the fruits of Western civilization to an oppressed and backward “Orient.” In France, Scotland, England, and Germany, Alexander the Great became an important point of reference in discourses from philosophy and history to political economy and geography. Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Robertson asked what lessons Alexander’s empire-building had to teach modern Europeans. They saw the ancient Macedonian as the embodiment of the rational and benevolent Western ruler, a historical model to be emulated as Western powers accelerated their colonial expansion into Asia, India, and the Middle East. “This important work. . . . confirms once more that the life-trajectory of the Macedonian conqueror remains an inexhaustible cultural resource.” —Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Empires Between Islam and Christianity

Book Eclectic Magazine  and Monthly Edition of the Living Age

Download or read book Eclectic Magazine and Monthly Edition of the Living Age written by John Holmes Agnew and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Contemporary Review

Download or read book The Contemporary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book VOYAGE DU SIEUR PAUL LUCAS  FAIT EN MDCCXIV   c  PAR ORDRE DE LOUIS XIV  DANS LA TURQUIE  L ASIE  SOURIE  PALESTINE  HAUTE ET BASSE EGYPTE   c  O   l on trouvera des Remarques tr  s curieuses  compar  es    ce qu ont dit les Anciens sur le Labyrinthe d Egypte  un grand nombre d autres Monumens de l Antiquit    dont il a fait la d  couverte  une Description du Gouvernement  des Forces  de la Religion  de la Politique   de l   tat present des Turcs  une Relation de leurs Pr  paratifs faits pour la derneire Guerre contre l Empereur    un Parallele des Co  tumes Modernes des Egyptiens avec les anciennes   c

Download or read book VOYAGE DU SIEUR PAUL LUCAS FAIT EN MDCCXIV c PAR ORDRE DE LOUIS XIV DANS LA TURQUIE L ASIE SOURIE PALESTINE HAUTE ET BASSE EGYPTE c O l on trouvera des Remarques tr s curieuses compar es ce qu ont dit les Anciens sur le Labyrinthe d Egypte un grand nombre d autres Monumens de l Antiquit dont il a fait la d couverte une Description du Gouvernement des Forces de la Religion de la Politique de l tat present des Turcs une Relation de leurs Pr paratifs faits pour la derneire Guerre contre l Empereur un Parallele des Co tumes Modernes des Egyptiens avec les anciennes c written by Paul Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: