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A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English)
Cypriot Arabic, an unwritten language and mother tongue of several hundred bilingual (Arabic/Greek) Maronites from Kormakiti (N.W. Cyprus), evolved from a medieval Arabic colloquial brought to the island by Christian Arab migrants (probably from Asia Minor and Syria). It represents the outcome of a unique linguistic and cultural synthesis drawing on Arabic, Aramaic, and Greek; its Arabic component also shows a hybrid areal profile combining Greater Syrian traits with formal features typical of the contemporary S.E.Anatolian-Mesopotamian dialectal continuum. A number of rare Aramaic substratal elements in Cypriot Arabic suggest a relatively early separation of its parent dialect from mainstre...
Translating Religion
This volume is a study of translation of sacred texts, known as the sharḥ, into Judeo-Arabic in Egypt in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book provides a linguistic model of the translation, which traces the literal/interpretive linguistic tension with which the translators struggled.
Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula
Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula is the first comprehensive book on all aspects of the vegetation, phytogeography and conservation of the vast and varied region of the Arabian Peninsula. Written and edited by experts on the botany and environment of the Peninsula, this book synthesises the information available on all aspects of the flora and vegetation (including lower plants), from the mountains, sand seas, coasts, water bodies and desert plains to the plants of economic importance. The book contains chapters on the vegetation, ecology and phytogeography of the mountains, wadis, sand deserts, gravel plains, coasts and sabkhas. Chapters on climate and geology provide the background information for understanding the dynamics of the vegetation. A chapter on the diversity of plants gives details of the region's species richness and endemism, current threats to plant diversity and the measures taken in the form of protected areas and legislation in each country of the Peninsula. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, scholars and professionals interested in Southwest Asian botany.
Madrider Mitteilungen 49-2008
B. GONZALEZ GONZALEZ, J. A. LINARES CATELA, J. C. VERA RODRIGUEZ y D. GONZALEZ BATANERO, Depotfund zylinderformiger Idole des 3. Jts. v. Chr. aus La Orden-Seminario (Huelva)M. KUNST und N. LUTZ, Zambujal (Torres Vedras, Portugal). Zur Prazision der absoluten Chronologie durch die Untersuchungen an der vierten BefestigungslinieR. MULLER and J. L. CARDOSO, The Origin and Use of Copper at the Chalcolithic Fortification of Leceia, PortugalR. MULLER and A. MONGE SOARES, Traces of Early Copper Production at the Chalcolithic Fortification of Vila Nova de Sao Pedro, PortugalD. BRANDHERM, Erneut zur Datierung der altesten griechischen und phonizischen Importkeramik auf der Iberischen HalbinselE. MART...
The First Three Hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā
Centered around a text-critical edition of three Old Avestan chapters of the Zoroastrian Yasna litrugy, the book explores aspects of their transmission, their past and present ritual setting, and of their exegetical reception in the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) tradition.
World Mapping Today
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