Product Description: This handbook of foreign loan words in the Arabic of the Quran is set up in dictionary format. Each word is given in Arabic and in transliteration, followed by an extensive definition. As useful today as when it was first published, this volume will be welcomed by students of Arabic and especially those who are concerned with its relationship to foreign languages...read more

Product Description: Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'an. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies...read more

Product Description: The Qur'ā n is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world's population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'ā nic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'ā nic studies...read more

Product Description: "The Qur'an" is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world's population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'anic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'anic studies...read more

Product Description: The Qur'ā n is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world's population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'ā nic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'ā nic studies...read more

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Product Description: Features alphabetical entries with the publication of volume Five.

Product Description: The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is generally acclaimed as one of the major scholarly enterprises of this century. This encyclopaedia, in the CD-ROM version (EI CD-ROM), contains the following: index of proper names, index of subjects, glossary and index of technical terms; over 10 million words and thousands of articles; figures, line drawings, genealogical tables and maps; articles accompanied by a table of contents; extensive, fully searchable bibliographies (including create-your-own bibliographies); powerful search engine allowing for Wildcard, Boolean, and Proximity searches; searches in both Arabic transcription and in English; export and printing options; facilities to annotate cross referencing hyperlinks; and a clearly written user guide in English (booklet and on-screen)...read more

Product Description: The initial years (126-145) of al-Mansur's reign presented several significant challenges to nascent Abbasid hegemony, and the resulting confrontations constitute the central focus of this section of Tabari's Tarikh. After Abu Jafar succeeded his brother Abu al-Abbas as caliph, the second of the Abbasid dynasty, he moved against his recalcitrant uncle, Abdallah b...read more