Author: Donald Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: oriental, series, volume, trubner, vol, ages, influence, arabian, medicine, trã¼bner, middle
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2001-07-26
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0415244633
ISBN-13: 9780415244633
REPRINT 2006. Hardbound. Cloth. Octavo. English, Book Two volumes in one. front. (map). 207, 235 pages. London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1926. A history of the origin and development of Arabian Medicine and its subsequent cultivation among the Arabistae of the Latin West. With the decline of the Graeco-Roman civilization, the movement of culture drift was eastward, passing through the hands of the Syriac scholars of Asia. Classical culture was carried on by Arabic scholars through the prism of Islamic teaching. Chapters on: Greek Medicine in its relation to the Ara
Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: handbook, der, studies, handbuch, oriental, orientalistik, china, orientalisk, daoism, part
Number of Pages: 954
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $324.00
ISBN-10: 9004112081
ISBN-13: 9789004112087
Thirty major scholars in the field wrote this new, authoritative guide to the main features and development of Daoism. The chapters are devoted to either specific periods, or topics such as Women in Daoism, Daoism in Korea and Daoist Ritual Music. Each chapter rigidly deals with a fixed set of aspects, such as history, texts, worldview and practices. Clear markings in the chapters themselves and a detailed index make this volume the most accessible key resource on Daoism past and present.
Author: American Oriental Society
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: society, oriental, american, journal
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 1113007834
ISBN-13: 9781113007834
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A recent interpretation of the Letter of an Assyrian Princess. —By Dr. Christopher Johnston, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Few cuneiform texts—though the assertion is rather a bold one—have been interpreted in so many different ways by different scholars as the brief letter of thirteen lines, K. 1619b (III R. 16, No. 2 ; Harper’s Letters, No. 308), addressed by the Assyrian princess, S
Authors:Heather Bleaney, Maria Angeles Gallego, C. H. Blea
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: studies, central, uralic, section, handbook, oriental, asia, asian, bibliography, afghanistan
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $221.00
ISBN-10: 900414532X
ISBN-13: 9789004145320
This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.
Author: N. J. WATSON
Publisher: OPEN UNIVERSITY WORLDWIDE
Keywords: oriental, exotic
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2004
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0749296011
ISBN-13: 9780749296018
Author: Joy Larkcom
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers
Keywords: vegetables, oriental
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0711226121
ISBN-13: 9780711226128
Author: Karl F. May
Publisher: Nemsi Books
Keywords: odyssey, oriental
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0971816409
ISBN-13: 9780971816404
The first and only unabridged translation of Karl May’s "Giölgeda padishanün" - "In the Shadow of the Padishah". As this book, translated by Michael Michalak, is the first of a larger series that is estimated to span some seven volumes, it has been appropriately renamed "Oriental Odyssey I". This original travel narrative, along with the many parts that follow, is referred to the "Orient Zyklus" in German. It was first published in the "Deutscher Hausschatz" magazine as a serial between 1881 and 1888. Karl May is known in Germany as the most prolific and most published author whose
