Author: Christine ToulierPublisher: Berger M. Editions
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : fr
Pages : 304
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Richelieu
Author: Christine ToulierPublisher: Berger M. Editions
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : fr
Pages : 304
Book Description
Chinese Ceramics
Author: Jean Joseph Marquet de VasselotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century
Author: G.R. CronePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317012003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Translation and edition. The additional documents, in translation, comprise a letter by Antoine Malfante, 1447, an account of the voyages of Diogo Gomes, c. 1456, and extracts from João de Barros, Decadas de Asia. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1937. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the map of "North-western Africa in the fifteenth century" which appeared in the first edition of the work.
The Graves of Tarim
Author: Engseng HoPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520244540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges—in kinship and writing—that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies are coming together to provide groundbreaking ways of studying religion, diaspora, and empire. Ho interprets biographies, family histories, chronicles, pilgrimage manuals and religious law as the unified literary output of a diaspora that hybridizes both texts and persons within a genealogy of Prophetic descent. By using anthropological concepts to read Islamic texts in Arabic and Malay, he demonstrates the existence of a hitherto unidentified canon of diasporic literature. His supple conceptual framework and innovative use of documentary and field evidence are elegantly combined to present a vision of this vital world region beyond the histories of trade and European empire.
When Japan Fights
Author: Percy NoëlPorts of the Ancient Indian Ocean
Author: Marie-Françoise BoussacPublisher:
ISBN: 9789384082079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ports of the Ancient Indian Ocean looks at the multisided role that 'ports' played in the exchange and transfer of knowledge between the 'Indian Ocean' and Mediterranean societies. Through the early Greek Periplus to minute descriptions by the Portuguese in the late sixteenth century or French archives of the colonial period, an accurate knowledge was gradually developed and transmitted on what is now called the Indian Ocean. The contributions focus on the nature of this knowledge, its history and status, using and combining new archaeological data and recent publications of textual material. They deal with material originating from the Red Sea to India, through Arabia and the Persian Gulf, shedding a new light on ancient ports and maritime contacts, with a special interest not only on India but on related areas as well, such as Sri Lanka and South-East Asia.
Origins and Development of Applied Chemistry
Author: James Riddick PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Buddhist Wall-paintings
Author: Langdon WarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Buddhist
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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A Concise History of Buddhist Art in Siam
Author: Reginald Le MayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107619463
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Originally published in 1938, this book provides a history of the variety of forms of Buddhist art that grew up in Thailand from the 1st century AD to the end of the 16th century. Le May draws on his experience as part of the British Consular Service in Thailand to focus primarily on sculpture, how the trade routes in South and South-East Asia brought Thailand into contact with a variety of artistic styles and how the different areas of the country adapted these styles for their own use. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of Thai art specifically or of Eastern art more generally.
The Sanaa Palimpsest
Author: Asma HilaliPublisher: Qur'anic Studies
ISBN: 9780198793793
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume provides a new annotated edition of the two layers of the 'Sanaa palimpsest', one of the oldest Qur'an manuscripts yet discovered, together with a critical introduction that offers new hypotheses concerning the transmission of the Qur'an during the first centuries of Islam. The palimpsest contains two superimposed Qur'anic texts within two layers of writing, on thirty-eight leaves of parchment collectively numbered MS 01-27.1 in the Dar al-Makhtutat (lit. 'the House of Manuscripts') in Sanaa, Yemen. The palimpsest's lower text, which has been dated to the first century of Islam (seventh century CE), was subsequently erased and the parchment was later reused for writing another Qur'anic text, which remains visible in natural light. This upper text is thought to date from the second century of Islam (eighth century CE). The two layers were imaged in 2007 by a French-Italian mission. Both Qur'anic texts are fragmented and present aspects of work in progress. In its lower layer, the manuscript offers the oldest witness of a reading instruction in a Qur'an text and perhaps even in any Arabic text. Such peculiarities offer rare evidence as to how the Qur'an was transmitted, taught and written down in the first centuries of Islam. In this book, Asma Hilali presents an annotated edition of the texts, together with a critical introduction. These contextualise the volume within the field of Qur'an manuscript studies, and engage with the historical and institutional contexts of transmission of the Qur'anic passages. The volume also makes systematic reference to previous studies and partial editions of the same manuscript.