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UNINA9910713496603321 |
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Autore |
Cady Ralph E. |
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Documentation of a Regional Aquifer Simulation Model, RAQSIM, and a description of support programs applied in the Twin Platte - Middle Republican Study Area, Nebraska / / by Ralph E. Cady and Jon M. Peckenpaugh |
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Lincoln, Nebraska : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1985 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Water-resources investigations report ; ; 85-4168 |
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Groundwater - Computer programs |
Groundwater - Nebraska - Mathematical models |
Aquifers - Nebraska - Computer simulation |
Groundwater - Mathematical models |
Nebraska |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"Prepared in cooperation with the Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Twin Platte Natural Resources District, Middle Republican Natural Resources District." |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-72). |
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UNINA9910780275003321 |
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Autore |
Cooperson Michael |
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Classical Arabic biography : the heirs of the prophets in the age of al-Maʼmūn / / Michael Cooperson [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
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1-107-11835-2 |
0-521-08854-2 |
0-511-15055-5 |
0-511-11812-0 |
0-511-31024-2 |
0-511-04885-8 |
0-511-49746-6 |
1-280-16234-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization |
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Disciplina |
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Literature and history - Islamic Empire |
Islamic Empire Historiography |
Islamic Empire Biography History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index. |
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Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on transliteration; Note on dating systems; Glossary; CHAPTER 1 The development of the genre; CHAPTER 2 The caliph al-Ma'mun; CHAPTER 3 The Imam 'Ali al-Rida; CHAPTER 4 The Hadith-scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal; CHAPTER 5 The renunciant Bishr al-Hafi; Conclusions; Appendix: The circumstances of 'Ali al-Rida's death; Bibliography; Index; Titles in the series |
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Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab |
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scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of important historical figures by examining the careers of the Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each figure responded to the presence of the others and how these responses were preserved by posterity. |
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