Middle East Languages from Focloir

Arabic mapa Modern Arabic poetry: an anthology. Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi. New York:Columbia University Press, 1987, xxviii, 498 pages. Good to very good copy in like dust jacket. $14.50 Box 23 Summary:After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression… Read more about this item

Central Asia bvvm Barthold, V. V. Four Studies on the History of Central Asia, Volume III, Mir 'Ali-Shir, A History of the Turkman People. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1962, 187 pages,illus, bib, index. Translated from the Russian by V. & T. Minorsky. The book is in the original green mint cloth with gilt on the spine and front cover panel.… Read more about this item

Biblical studies THB 2C Edited by Feder, Frank, and Matthias Henze. Textual history of the Bible. The Hebrew Bible. The deuterocanonical scriptures. Vol. 2C. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019, xxxii, 572 pages. Like new in hardcover. $125.00 Box 5678 Summary:"[The Deuterocanonical Scriptures, volume 2 of Textual history of the Bible] provides the reader with an unprecedented wealth of textual… Read more about this item

Biblical studies THB 1C Lange Armin and Emanuel Tov (editors). Textual history of the Bible. The Hebrew Bible. Vol. 1C: Writings. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017, xxxiv, 771 pages. Like new in hardcover. $125.00 Box 5678 Hall closet Summary:The 'Textual History of the Bible (THB)' brings together all available information regarding the manuscripts, textual history and character of each… Read more about this item

Frye, Richard Nelson, 1920- The heritage of Persia. Cleveland, World Pub. Co. 1963 (Series >World histories of civilization). 301 p., notes, bib, index, maps, illus. Very good in dust jacket $10.00 Box 5678

Kurdish 1991 Hazhar/ Hejar? Farhang-i Kurdi-Farsi hanbanah burinah. (Kurdish-Persian dictionary). Tehran: Surush, 1991?, Volume 1 – any more published? Good, tight copy of the hardcover, small piece missing from one page, a free endpaper. $35.00 Box B50 Notes: Persian and Kurdish Title on cover: Kurdish-Persian dictionary, Volume 1.

Kurdish meho Meho, Lokman I. T (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History)he Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography New York: Greenwood Press, 2001, xiv, 365, indexes. There is a small note, in ink, on top edge of front lining paper, with "Office copy, added 1-01"

Kurdish hhdf Hakim, Halkawt. Dictionnaire fondamental kurde-français : dialecte sorani. Paris : Langues & mondes-L'Asiathèque, 1996., 317 pages Very good copy of the paperback. $20.00 Box B18

Kurdish hkk Bedirxan, Celadet Ali, 1893-1951. Hawar: kovara Kurdî = Revue kurde Xwedî û berpirsiyarê kovarê Mîr Celadet Alî Bedir-Xan; ji elfa beya erebî-farisî wergerandin û ji nuh ve nivîsandin Mihemed Bekir. [Sweden]: Weşanxana Hawar, 1987. Description 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., fascims. ; 22 cm. Reprint. Originally published: Damascus : Maṭbaʻat al-Taraqqī, 1932. Includes v. 1, nos. 1-9, 1932. Text… Read more about this item

Persia jcso Jahani, Carina. Standardization and orthography in the Balochi language. Uppsala: Uppsala University ; Stockholm, Sweden : Distributor, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1989, 268 pages, illus, bib, index. In like new condition bound in attractive library buckram cloth. From the personal library of a bibliophile/librarian Thesis note: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Uppsala University. Description

Description: Akkadian bfac BOHL, Franz M. Th. Akkadian Chrestomathy, Volume I: Selected Cuneiform Texts. With assistance of Madelon L. Verstunen, copyist. Leiden, Holland: Nederlandsch Archaeologisch-Philologisch Insitituut, 1947. Paperback. Good, solid condition. There is some minor fraying to spine which has been repaired. Larger volume about 10"x 12". Paperback. Book Condition: Good. Series: Nederlandsch Archaeologisch-Philologisch Insitituut, I checked but could find… Read more about this item

Iran bmik Bruinessen, Martin et Joyce Blau, L'Islam des Kurdes. (Series: Les Annales de l'Autre Islam, Number 5 – 1998). Numéro coordonné par Martin van Bruinessen, avec la participation de Joyce Blau. Paris: ERISM - Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Annales de l'Autre Islam, 1999, 400 pages, bib. Paperbound, fine, clean, tight copy, no marks. Essays are in… Read more about this item

Persia dchq Aḥmad Ibrāhīmī Ḥusaynī, b. 1546. (احمد ابراهيمى حسينى), and Muller, Hans. Die Chronik Ḫulāṣat at-tawārīḫ des Qāżī Aḥmad Qumī: der Abschnitt über Schah ʻAbbās I. Der Abschnitt uber Schah 'Abbas I. Herausgegeben und ubersetzt von Hans Muller. (Series: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Number xiv). Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1964, x, 127 pages, 102 pages, notes, bib, index. Very… Read more about this item

Turkey krfot Kreutel, Richard Franz (Compiler). Osmanisch-türkische Chrestomathie. (Series: Porta linguarum orientalium). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1965, xxii, 284 pages, vocabulary. Fine copy in gray library buckram. Probably was issued as paperback but has since been bound up in the cloth binding. Wrappers from original paperback binding bound in. The professor must have had a lot of money to bind up so… Read more about this item

Middle East kurd1 Blau, Joyce. Manuel de Kurde (Dialecte Sorani). Grammaire, textes de lecture, vocabulaire kurde-francais et francais-kurde. (Series: Institut d'Etudes Iraniennes de l'Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle: Documents et Ouvrages de Reference – 2). Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1980, 287 pages. Originally issued in paperback but has been bound in green library buckram cloth with gilt lettering on spine.… Read more about this item

Iran mvsc Minorsky, Vladimir Fyodorovich, 1877 – 1966. Studies in Caucasian History: I. New Light on the Shaddadids of Ganja II. The Shaddadids of Ani III. Prehistory of Saladin (Cambridge Oriental Series, Series Number 6). London: Taylor Foreign Press, 1953, 178 pages, map, notes, index plus 18 pages of the Arabic text of the Chapter on the Shaddadids. Very good… Read more about this item

Ancient world remc Riggs, Elias, 1810-1901. A manual of the Chaldee language: containing a Chaldee grammar, chiefly from the German of Professor G. B. Winer, a chrestomathy, consisting of selections from the targums, and including notes on the Biblical Chaldee, and a vocabulary adapted to the chrestomathy, with an appendix on the Rabbinic and Samaritan dialects. Fourth edition, revised. New… Read more about this item

Persia Fshna Firdawsī /Atkinson, James, 1780-1852. The Sháh námeh of the Persian poet Firdausí, translated and abridged in prose and verse, by James Atkinson. Edited by J. A. Atkinson. (Series: The Chandos classics). London/New York: Frederick Warne, 1886, xxxi, 412 pages. Publisher's ads. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and top edge gilt. In good clean shape,… Read more about this item

Ancient world lwfb Leemans, W. F. The Old-Babylonian Merchant. His Business and His Social Position. (Series: Studia et Documenta ad iura Orientis Antiqui Pertinentia, Vol. III). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1950, xii, 167 pages, bib, indices, glossary. Paperbound volume in very good plus condition. There is a stamp of the previous owner on the front free endpaper as well as a… Read more about this item

Middle East smal Steinschneider, Moritz. Die Arabische Literatur der Juden: Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte der Araber, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1986, liv, 348, 32 pages. index. Reprint of 1902 Frankfurt publication. Very nice copy, bright orange cover, crisp black lettering. Fine copy. $40.00 Box 70 2.1