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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | A miscellany of Middle Eastern articles : in memoriam Thomas Muir Johnstone, 1924-83, professor of Arabic in the University of London, 1970-82 / edited by A.K. Irvine, R.B. Serjeant and G. Rex Smith. |
| Added Author: | Irvine, A.K., Serjeant, R.B. (Robert Bertram), Smith, G. Rex (Gerald Rex), |
| Publisher: | Harlow, Essex : Longman, 1988. |
| Pages: | xi, 249 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 0582783895 |
| Notes: | (c) Longman Group (UK) Ltd. 1988.Includes biography of Thomas Muir Johnstone |
| Bibliographic Note: | Includes bibliography of Thomas Muir Johnstone and index. |
| Contents: | The language and function of the Hispano-Arabic zajal / Jareer Abu-Haidar -- Al-Gharaniq al-'Ula - The twilight of the Arabian goddess / R.W. J. Austin -- Cyprus in 1563: a Portuguese narrative / C.F. Beckingham -- Announcing an Ottoman victory in Hungary to a Yemeni emir / Caesar E. Farah -- The pool of oaths - a comparative study of a bedouin historical poem / B. Ingham -- The contribution of the Portuguese to the development of Amharic writing / A.K. Irvine -- Salah 'Abd al-Sabur and 'the tragedy of al-Hallaj' / Mohamed A. al-Khozai -- Did 'Antarah ibn Shaddad conquer Zimbabwe? / H.T. Norris -- A Socotran star calendar / R.B. Serjeant -- Arabic popular proverbs on labour as found in the dialects of the Arabian peninsula and Iraq / G. Sharbatov -- Ibn al-Mujawir's 7th/13th century Arabia - The wondrous and the humorous / G. Rex Smith -- Tribal structures in south Oman / Salim Bakhit al-Tabuki -- The oman and Ibadi background to the Kilwah Sirah: the demise of Oman as a political and religious force in the I |
| Author as Subject: | Johnstone, T.M. (Thomas Muir), 1924-1983'Abd al-Sabur, Salah, 1931-81Ibn al-Mujawir, Yusuf ibn Ya'qub, 1204 or 5-1291 or 2Ibn Shaddad, 'Antara, sec. half 6th cent.Sibawayhi, 8th cent. |
| Descriptors: | Language Grammar Zajal Poetry, Badawi |
| Location: | Oriental Inst., Oxford. OIL BP15 JOH |
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