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Category : Civilization, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3126

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Publisher: R. R. Bowker
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Author: Ofra Bengio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190288132
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. By analyzing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, author Ofra Bengio illuminates Iraq's political culture and the events that these expressions have both reflected and shaped. Not only does this study add to our understanding of the "Saddam enigma;" it also offers a more universal truth: that under any regime, political culture is built on public discourse. Saddam's Word will be of much interest to students of the contemporary Middle East, as well as to all other observers of Saddam Hussein and his regime.

Author: Farhad Daftary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521429740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Scattered across the globe, the Isma'ilis constitute the second largest Shi'i community in the Muslim World. This study traces their history and doctrinal developments from their origins to the present day over a period of twelve centuries.

Author: Annie M. Brewer
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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Author: Jean Sauvaget
Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Zaina Hafiz Tsouhlaris
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1599423723
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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The thesis explores the syntactic and semantic dimensions of four linguistic elements that appear in Modern Greek arguably as quantifiers and modifiers, i.e., in the form of Quantificational Modifiers (QMods) olos 'all, whole, overall' and its extension olikos 'total', merikos 'some, a few, partial', ligos 'some, few, little, insignificant' and polis 'many, great, considerable'. Such QMods are analyzed as 'measure' quantifiers of scalar semantics that appear in a syntactic position common to adjectival modifiers. The thesis explores specific sets of reading and their interpretations. Such a phenomenon is common to Modern Greek, English, French and Arabic QMods and gives evidence to the universality of Quantificational Modification. Chapter 1 discusses Quantification as semantic interpretation along with the main questions this research intends to answer, while Chapter 2 reviews recent literature on Quantification within and across languages. Chapter 3 focuses on Modern Greek expressions of Quantification and extends chapter 2 into a further discussion about the various syntactic manifestations. Chapters 4 and 5 are extensions to chapters 2 and 3 as they discuss the semantics of specific QMods as 'total' and 'partial' quantifiers, which operate on homomorphic sets of degrees and amounts. Chapter 6 discusses the broader issues in the thesis from a theoretical and typological perspective that establishes Quantificational Modification as a universal and purely semantic subclass of Quantification. Our findings are summarized in chapter 7, followed by suggestions for expanding our investigation into other related areas.

Author: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Jean Sauvaget
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520376293
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.