Author: Leo Wiener
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: culture, volume, gothic, arabico, history, contributions
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2002-11-02
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1931956987
ISBN-13: 9781931956987

Leo Wiener argues that Germanic languages have arisen by a sudden influx of Low Latin, and Arabic. He demonstrates that they arose from the Graeco-Latin glossaries through Gothic interpretations, which themselves owe their origin to the Graeco-Arabic learning of Spain.

Author: Richard Davey
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: subjects, sultan
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0971598606
ISBN-13: 9780971598607

An earnest description of the Moslem and Christian nationalities under the Ottoman Empire. ?A skilful narrative? The personal element, drawn from intimate mixture with pasha and peasant, invests the author?s story with enthralling interest, which sustains his readers to the end.?

Author: Ameen Rihani
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: valleys, hymns
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2002-04-15
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 1931956200
ISBN-13: 9781931956208

Hymns of the Valleys is a translation of the first collection of free verse ever compiled in Arabic. Rihani?

Author: Sebastian P. Brock
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Keywords: handbooks, gorgias, tradition, syriac, bible
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2006-12-20
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1593333005
ISBN-13: 9781593333003

An excellent introduction to the Syriac Bible and its usage in the Syriac tradition. Brock gives an outline of all the Syriac versions of the Old and New Testaments, with chapters on the usage of the Bible, biblical commentaries and liturgical use of the scriptures.

Author: George Smith
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: discoveries, nineveh, site, account, assyrian, explorations
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1931956030
ISBN-13: 9781931956031

During 1873 and 1874, George Smith took part in excavations at the Assyrian site of Nineveh. In this book, he gives an account, with illustrations, of the excavations.

Author: Nicholas Ferencz
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: gorgias, dissertations, congregationalism, parish, orthodoxy, american
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1593331959
ISBN-13: 9781593331955

Author: Selma Ekrem
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: dialogue, cultures, unveiled
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2007-03-23
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 1593332203
ISBN-13: 9781593332204

This book covers Ekrem’s family’s sojourns outside of Istanbul, when her father was governor of Jerusalem during the 1908 Young Turk revolution. It also covers his governorship of the Greek Archipelago Islands, where the family was held captive during the Balkan Wars.