Toorawa shawkat m editor (16 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 269 pages. 10.00x7.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Edition, First Printing. This is a new hardcover first edition, first printing copy in a new mylar protected DJ, midnight blue spine. Dual English - Arabic text.

Paperback. Condizione: Like New. First Edition. In nearly new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no creases. Just a few hardly noticeable rubs or very mild bumps. Hence a non-text page shows a small 'damaged' stamp. Despite such this book looks and feels unread. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and tight. And so a very nice book in great condition, now offered for sale at a reasonable price.…

Soft cover. Condizione: New. xlv, 172 pages : maps, genealogical tables : 21 cm/.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 192 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.60 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. xxxiii, 161 pages, map : 24 cm. Parallel Arabic text and English translation.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. xv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Contents: Introduction / Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat M. Toorawa Pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia and late Antiquity / Harry Munt Why Mecca? : Abraham and the Hajj in the Islamic tradition / Fareeha Khan The early Hajj : seventh-eighth centuries CE / Travis Zadeh Women and the Hajj / Asma Sayeed The Hajj by land / Benjamin Claude Brower Hajj by sea / Eric Tagliacozzo The Hajj by air / Robert R. Bianchi Economics : agents, pilgrims, and profits / Sylvia Chiffoleau. International bodies : the pilgrimage to Mecca and international health regulations / Valeska Huber The Saudis as managers of the Hajj / Saud al-Sarhan Performing the pilgrimage / Shawkat M. Toorawa Decoding the Hajj in cyberspace / Gary R. Bunt The pilgrim's complaint : recent accounts of the Hajj / Michael Wolfe Visualizing the Hajj : representations of a changing sacred landscape past and present / Juan E. Campo. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Summary:A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Butlan, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Butlan's own deep technical knowledge of medical practice, including surgery, blood-letting, and medicines. He also makes reference to the great thinkers and physicians of the ancient world, including Hippocrates, Galen, and Socrates. Combining literary parody with social satire, the book is richly textured and carefully organized: in addition to the use of the question-and-answer format associated with technical literature, it is replete with verse and subtexts that hint at the infatuation of the elderly practitioners with their young guest. The Doctors' Dinner Party is an entertaining read in which the author skewers the pretensions of the physicians around the table. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Summary:Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Sa'i (d. 674 H/1276 AD). Ibn al-Sa'i was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city, and whose career straddled the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 656 H/1258 AD.In this work, Ibn al-Sa'i is keen to forge a connection between the munificent wives of his time and the storied lovers of the so-called golden age of Baghdad. Thus, from the earlier period, we find Harun al-Rashid pining for his brother's beautiful slave, Ghadir, and the artistry of such musical and literary celebrities as 'Arib and Fadl, who bested the male poets and singers of their day. From times closer to Ibn al-Sa'i's own--when Abbasid authority was trying to reassert itself and Baghdad was again a major center of intellectual and religious activity--we meet women such as Banafsha, who endowed law colleges, had bridges built, and provisioned pilgrims bound for Mecca; slave women whose funeral services were led by caliphs; and noble Saljuq princesses from Afghanistan.Informed by the author's own sources, his insider knowledge, and well-known literary materials, these singular biographical sketches, though delivered episodically, bring the belletristic culture of the Baghdad court to life, particularly in the personal narratives and poetry of culture heroines otherwise lost to history.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 206 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. bilingual edition. 226 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 441 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 441 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. bilingual edition. 226 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 9.50x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.