Al-Jahiz [[electronic resource] ] : In Praise of Books
| Al-Jahiz [[electronic resource] ] : In Praise of Books |
| Autore | Montgomery James E |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (593 p.) |
| Disciplina | 800 |
| Collana | Edinburgh studies in Classical Arabic literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Arabic language -- Lexicography
Jāhiz, d. 868 or 9 Literature |
| ISBN |
0-7486-9507-9
0-7486-8333-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART 1 PHYSIOGNOMY OF AN APOCALYPTIC AGE ""; ""1.1 Cataclysm""; ""1.2 Eristics and Salvation""; ""1.3 A Self-chronicling Society""; ""PART 2 THE BOOK OF LIVING""; ""2.1 The Totalising Work""; ""2.2 The Treatise as Totality""; ""2.3 Parsing Totality""; ""2.4 The Articulation of The Book of Living""; ""2.5 Analogues?""; ""PART 3 THE JAHIZIAN LIBRARY UNDER ATTACK""; ""3.1 Introducing the �Introduction�""; ""3.2 Translation""; ""3.3 Commentary""; ""3.4 The Argument ""; ""PART 4 THE SALVIFIC BOOK""; ""4.1 Biobibliographies""
""4.2 The Form of the �Introduction�""""4.3 The Enigma of the Addressee""; ""4.4 Invective""; ""4.5 The Cohesiveness of Society""; ""4.6 An Encyclopaedia to Save Society""; ""PART 5 THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIGN""; ""5.1 Governance of the Cosmos""; ""5.2 The Grateful Response, 1""; ""5.3 The Grateful Response, 2""; ""5.4 Obliquity""; ""Part 6 APPRECIATING DESIGN""; ""6.1 An Eristical Contest""; ""6.2 Translation""; ""6.3 The Argument""; ""6.4 Conclusion""; ""Postface""; ""Appendix: The Praise of Books ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Al-Jahiz : In Praise of Books
| Al-Jahiz : In Praise of Books |
| Autore | Montgomery James E (James Edward), <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (593 p.) |
| Disciplina | 800 |
| Collana | Edinburgh studies in Classical Arabic literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Arabic language -- Lexicography
Jāhiz, d. 868 or 9 Literature |
| ISBN |
0-7486-9507-9
0-7486-8333-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART 1 PHYSIOGNOMY OF AN APOCALYPTIC AGE ""; ""1.1 Cataclysm""; ""1.2 Eristics and Salvation""; ""1.3 A Self-chronicling Society""; ""PART 2 THE BOOK OF LIVING""; ""2.1 The Totalising Work""; ""2.2 The Treatise as Totality""; ""2.3 Parsing Totality""; ""2.4 The Articulation of The Book of Living""; ""2.5 Analogues?""; ""PART 3 THE JAHIZIAN LIBRARY UNDER ATTACK""; ""3.1 Introducing the �Introduction�""; ""3.2 Translation""; ""3.3 Commentary""; ""3.4 The Argument ""; ""PART 4 THE SALVIFIC BOOK""; ""4.1 Biobibliographies""
""4.2 The Form of the �Introduction�""""4.3 The Enigma of the Addressee""; ""4.4 Invective""; ""4.5 The Cohesiveness of Society""; ""4.6 An Encyclopaedia to Save Society""; ""PART 5 THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIGN""; ""5.1 Governance of the Cosmos""; ""5.2 The Grateful Response, 1""; ""5.3 The Grateful Response, 2""; ""5.4 Obliquity""; ""Part 6 APPRECIATING DESIGN""; ""6.1 An Eristical Contest""; ""6.2 Translation""; ""6.3 The Argument""; ""6.4 Conclusion""; ""Postface""; ""Appendix: The Praise of Books ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Montgomery James E (James Edward), <1962->
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| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013] | ||
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Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages [[electronic resource] ] : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / / Samer M. Ali
| Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages [[electronic resource] ] : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / / Samer M. Ali |
| Autore | Ali Samer M |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | xi, 294 p |
| Disciplina | 892.7/13409 |
| Collana | Poetics of orality and literacy |
| Soggetto topico |
Arabic poetry - 750-1258 - History and criticism
Salons - Islamic Empire Oral tradition - Islamic Empire |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-268-07497-6
0-268-07465-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujālasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buhṭurī's īwān kisrā ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujālasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463363103321 |
Ali Samer M
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| Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010 | ||
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Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages [[electronic resource] ] : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / / Samer M. Ali
| Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages [[electronic resource] ] : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / / Samer M. Ali |
| Autore | Ali Samer M |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | xi, 294 p |
| Disciplina | 892.7/13409 |
| Collana | Poetics of orality and literacy |
| Soggetto topico |
Arabic poetry - 750-1258 - History and criticism
Salons - Islamic Empire Oral tradition - Islamic Empire |
| ISBN |
0-268-07497-6
0-268-07465-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujālasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buhṭurī's īwān kisrā ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujālasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788204003321 |
Ali Samer M
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| Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Culture et éducation arabo-islamiques au Šām pendant les trois premiers siècles de l'islam [[electronic resource] ] : d'après "Tārīh̲ madīnat Dimašq" d'Ibn ‘Asākir'
| Culture et éducation arabo-islamiques au Šām pendant les trois premiers siècles de l'islam [[electronic resource] ] : d'après "Tārīh̲ madīnat Dimašq" d'Ibn ‘Asākir' |
| Autore | Abiad Malaké |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Presses de l’Ifpo, 1981 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations, charts |
| Collana | Études arabes, médiévales et modernes |
| Soggetto topico |
Education
Social Sciences History of Education |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Syrie
Islam culture éducation Damas |
| ISBN |
9782351594759 (ebook)
9782351591222 (paperback) |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132286203321 |
Abiad Malaké
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| Presses de l’Ifpo, 1981 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Greek thought, Arabic culture : the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and early ʻAbbasid society (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries) / / Dimitri Gutas
| Greek thought, Arabic culture : the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and early ʻAbbasid society (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries) / / Dimitri Gutas |
| Autore | Gutas Dimitri |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina |
909.0974927
909/.0974927 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Arab
Civilization, Arab - Greek influences Greek language Translating and interpreting |
| ISBN |
1-282-81629-2
9786612816291 1-283-70772-1 1-134-92635-9 0-203-01743-9 1-134-92634-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; NOTE ON DATES, NAMES, AND TRANSLITERATION; TABLE; INTRODUCTION; Part I. TRANSLATION AND EMPIRE; 1. THE BACKGROUND OF THE TRANSLATION MOVEMENT; 2. AL-MANSUR; 3. AL-MAHDI AND HIS SONS; 4. AL-MA'MUN; Part II. TRANSLATION AND SOCIETY; 5. TRANSLATION IN THE SERVICE OF APPLIED AND THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE; 6. PATRONS, TRANSLATORS, TRANSLATIONS; 7. TRANSLATION AND HISTORY; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STUDIES ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TRANSLATION MOVEMENT FOR ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION; GENERAL INDEX
INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783853103321 |
Gutas Dimitri
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ibn al-'Arabic and Islamic intellectual culture : from mysticism to philosophy / / Caner K. Dagli
| Ibn al-'Arabic and Islamic intellectual culture : from mysticism to philosophy / / Caner K. Dagli |
| Autore | Dagli Caner K. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (169 pages) |
| Disciplina | 297.4092 |
| Collana | Routledge Sufi Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Sufis
Sufism - History Islamic philosophy - History |
| ISBN |
1-315-77094-6
1-317-67390-5 1-317-67391-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Theoretical considerations: cutting the pie of mysticism, philosophy, and theology -- 2. Setting the stage for the school of Ibn al-Arab -- 3. Metaphysical preliminaries -- 4. Qnaw's metaphysics -- 5. Jand's use of wujd and related concepts -- 6. Kashan: conditioning and proving God's existence -- 7. Qay ar and the centrality of existence. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796678103321 |
Dagli Caner K.
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal : Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam / / edited by Sebastian Günther
| Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal : Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam / / edited by Sebastian Günther |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (504 p.) |
| Disciplina | 909/.09767 |
| Collana | Islamic History and Civilization |
| Soggetto topico |
Arabic literature
Civilization Arabic literature - History and criticism Islamic philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-86784-1
9786610867844 90-474-0726-1 1-4337-0636-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Foreword (By Tarif Khalidi); Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction (By Sebastian Günther); Chapter One Context Equivalence: A Hitherto Insufficiently Studied Use of the Quran in Political Speeches from the Early Period of Islam (By Stephan Dähne); Chapter Two Classical Heritage and New Literary Forms: Literary Activities of Christians during the Umayyad Period (By Ute Pietruschka); Chapter Three Refuting the Charge of Tahrif: Abu Ra'ita (d. ca. 835) and his ""First Risala on the Holy Trinity"" (By Sandra Toenies Keating)
Chapter Four Meeting the Patron: An Akhbar Type and its Implications for Muhdath Poetry (By Beatrice Gruendler)Chapter Five Advice for Teachers: The 9th Century Muslim Scholars Ibn Sahnun and al-Jahiz on Pedagogy and Didactics (By Sebastian Günther); Chapter Six Medieval Muslim Scholarship and Social Network Analysis: A Study of the Basra/Kufa Dichotomy in Arabic Grammar (By Monique Bernards); Chapter Seven The Contribution of the Mawali to the Six Sunnite Canonical Hadith Collections (By John Nawas) Chapter Eight Portrayal of the Hajj as a Context for Women's Exegesis: Textual Evidence in al-Bukhari's (d. 870) ""al-Sahih"" (By Aisha Geissinger)Chapter Nine Image Formation of an Islamic Legend: Fatima, the Daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (By Verena Klemm); Chapter Ten Narratives and Character Development: Al-Tabari and al-Baladhuri on Late Umayyad History (By Steven C. Judd); Chapter Eleven ""The Alchemy of Happiness"": Al-Ghazali's Kimiya and the Origins of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Principles (By Alexei A. Khismatulin) Chapter Twelve Taqlid of the Philosophers: Al-Ghazali's Initial Accusation in his Tahafut (By Frank Griffel)Chapter Thirteen The Spread of Zahirism in Post-Caliphal al-Andalus: The Evidence from the Biographical Dictionaries (By Camilla Adang); Chapter Fourteen Working within Structure: Al-Zamakhshari (d. 1144): A Late Mu'tazilite Quran Commentator at Work (By Andrew J. Lane); Chapter Fifteen The First Islamic Revolt in Mamluk Collective Memory: Ibn Bakr's (d. 1340) Portrayal of the Third Caliph 'Uthman (By Heather Keaney) Chapter Sixteen The Sword and the Pen in the Pre-Modern Arabic Heritage: A Literary Representation of an Important Historical Relationship (By Adrian Gully)About the Authors; Indices |
| Altri titoli varianti | Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451196703321 |
| Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal : Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam / / edited by Sebastian Günther
| Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal : Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam / / edited by Sebastian Günther |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (504 p.) |
| Disciplina | 909/.09767 |
| Collana | Islamic History and Civilization |
| Soggetto topico |
Arabic literature
Civilization Arabic literature - History and criticism Islamic philosophy Islamic civilization |
| ISBN |
1-280-86784-1
9786610867844 90-474-0726-1 1-4337-0636-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Foreword (By Tarif Khalidi); Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction (By Sebastian Günther); Chapter One Context Equivalence: A Hitherto Insufficiently Studied Use of the Quran in Political Speeches from the Early Period of Islam (By Stephan Dähne); Chapter Two Classical Heritage and New Literary Forms: Literary Activities of Christians during the Umayyad Period (By Ute Pietruschka); Chapter Three Refuting the Charge of Tahrif: Abu Ra'ita (d. ca. 835) and his ""First Risala on the Holy Trinity"" (By Sandra Toenies Keating)
Chapter Four Meeting the Patron: An Akhbar Type and its Implications for Muhdath Poetry (By Beatrice Gruendler)Chapter Five Advice for Teachers: The 9th Century Muslim Scholars Ibn Sahnun and al-Jahiz on Pedagogy and Didactics (By Sebastian Günther); Chapter Six Medieval Muslim Scholarship and Social Network Analysis: A Study of the Basra/Kufa Dichotomy in Arabic Grammar (By Monique Bernards); Chapter Seven The Contribution of the Mawali to the Six Sunnite Canonical Hadith Collections (By John Nawas) Chapter Eight Portrayal of the Hajj as a Context for Women's Exegesis: Textual Evidence in al-Bukhari's (d. 870) ""al-Sahih"" (By Aisha Geissinger)Chapter Nine Image Formation of an Islamic Legend: Fatima, the Daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (By Verena Klemm); Chapter Ten Narratives and Character Development: Al-Tabari and al-Baladhuri on Late Umayyad History (By Steven C. Judd); Chapter Eleven ""The Alchemy of Happiness"": Al-Ghazali's Kimiya and the Origins of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya Principles (By Alexei A. Khismatulin) Chapter Twelve Taqlid of the Philosophers: Al-Ghazali's Initial Accusation in his Tahafut (By Frank Griffel)Chapter Thirteen The Spread of Zahirism in Post-Caliphal al-Andalus: The Evidence from the Biographical Dictionaries (By Camilla Adang); Chapter Fourteen Working within Structure: Al-Zamakhshari (d. 1144): A Late Mu'tazilite Quran Commentator at Work (By Andrew J. Lane); Chapter Fifteen The First Islamic Revolt in Mamluk Collective Memory: Ibn Bakr's (d. 1340) Portrayal of the Third Caliph 'Uthman (By Heather Keaney) Chapter Sixteen The Sword and the Pen in the Pre-Modern Arabic Heritage: A Literary Representation of an Important Historical Relationship (By Adrian Gully)About the Authors; Indices |
| Altri titoli varianti | Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784188903321 |
| Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Islamic cultures, Islamic contexts : essays in honor of Professor Patricia Crone / / edited by Behnam Sadeghi [and three others] ; contributors, David Abulafia [and twenty-six others]
| Islamic cultures, Islamic contexts : essays in honor of Professor Patricia Crone / / edited by Behnam Sadeghi [and three others] ; contributors, David Abulafia [and twenty-six others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (669 p.) |
| Disciplina | 909/.09767 |
| Collana | Islamic History and Civilization |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-28171-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Variant Traditions, Relative Chronology, and the Study of Intra-Quranic Parallels / Joseph Witztum -- 2 The Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (60s ah/680 ce) / Robert Hoyland and Hannah Cotton -- 3 Jewish Christianity and Islamic Origins / Guy G. Stroumsa -- 4 A Note on the Relationship between Tafsīr and Common Understanding with Reference to Contracts of Marriage / Karen Bauer -- 5 “Earnest Money” and the Sources of Islamic Law / Gerald Hawting and David M. Eisenberg -- 6 “A Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third”: An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis and Beyond / Pavel Pavlovitch and David S. Powers -- 7 Basra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal Controversy / Christopher Melchert -- 8 God’s Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl born ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic Sunna / Deborah G. Tor -- 9 Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn and the Politics of Deference / Matthew S. Gordon -- 10 Eighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of Peace / Kevin van Bladel -- 11 Greek Language and Education under Early Islam / Maria Mavroudi -- 12 Kalām and the Greeks / Fritz W. Zimmermann -- 13 “Arabs” and “Iranians”: The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period / Michael Cooperson -- 14 The Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the Būyids / Margaret Larkin -- 15 Must God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ashʿarī Theology / Khaled El-Rouayheb -- 16 Administrators’ Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and West / Chris Wickham -- 17 An Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite Jurists / Devin J. Stewart -- 18 A Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval Islam / David J. Wasserstein -- 19 What Happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian Spain / David Abulafia -- 20 The Samaritan Version of the Esther Story / Adam Silverstein -- 21 New Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs of the Nineteenth Century / Bella Tendler Krieger -- 22 Crone and the End of Orientalism / Chase F. Robinson -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494587303321 |
| Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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