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The book describes current research into all aspects of craftwork in ancient Egypt.
This focused study is one of the few analytical resources in English that covers the ancient and early medieval history of one of the least studied areas of the vast mountainous Pamir region of Central Asia: Shughnān. The book brings together scattered fragments of information from a wide range of early Greek, Chinese, Persian, and Arabic sources, the accounts of early European travellers and the scholarly contributions of Soviet and post-Soviet authors, as well as personal accounts and oral history material from the region. Drawing on historical, archaeological, linguistic, and ethnographic data, it provides a holistic overview of the kingdom of Shughnān. It also attempts, for the first t...
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Here, the author examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. He argues that the Russian Empire's bi-continental geography and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated understanding of the East among its people.
This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.
ANOR is a series of short monographs papers on the history and culture of Muslim Central Asia. The papers deal with various topics related to this region such as history, literature, anthropology.
Ser. 6, v. 11, 14 and 18; ser. 7, v. 1 and 9, ser. 7, v. 16 and 19, ser. 8, v. 5, 9, 13 and 17 include "Bibliographie ottomane. Notice des livres turcs arabes et persans imprimés à Constantinople durant le période 1281-1307 de l'Hégire" (title varies slightly)