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Arabic language --- Arabic alphabet --- Writing, Arabic --- Paleography, Arabic --- Written Arabic --- History --- Paleography, Arabic. --- History. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Arabic paleography --- Alphabet --- Semitic languages --- Written Arabic&delete& --- Arabic language - Written Arabic - History --- Arabic alphabet - History --- Writing, Arabic - History
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Arabic language --- Short stories, Arabic --- Readers --- Short stories, Arabic. --- Readers. --- Arabic short stories --- Arabic fiction --- Arabic language - Readers
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Arabic language --- Birds --- Fishes --- Proverbs, Arabic
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Arabic language --- Folk music --- English --- Arabic
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Turkish language --- Foreign elements --- Arabic
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Arabic letters on papyrus challenge the modern reader. There are few to no diacritical dots to distinguish homographs, no systematic spacing between single words, and in the majority of cases a low degree of graphical structuring. However, contemporary readers usually read and understood these documents easily - probably because the recipient of a letter knew what to expect. The letters are formulaic, and their information packaging follows an algorithm typical for their time and content. Here formulaic letter writing means not only the reuse of the same formulae or topoi but expressing though
Arabic letters --- Letter writing, Arabic --- Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri) --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Arabic papyri --- Arabic letter writing --- Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri). --- Lettres (Genre littéraire) arabes --- Papyrus arabes --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Arabic literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Letter writing --- Correspondance --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Arabic letters. --- Arabisation. --- Epistolography. --- Islamisation. --- Correspondance arabe --- Égypte --- Sources --- Antiquité --- Moyen-âge --- Égypte --- Antiquité --- Moyen-âge
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This catalogue is the first on the outstanding collection of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum, by a specialist in the field. The first part focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals covering material from the 8th to the 20th century. The introduction covers seal practice in different periods and levels of society; the role of the seal and the "alama" or motto, the use of figural representation on the seals, seal engravers, the forgery of seals and the importance of the stones used are described. The features of the seals themselves, in particular the palaeography and dating of early Islamic seals, some grammatical features of the inscriptions, and the range of designs present on the seals are analysed. The types and form of Islamic names, the range of phrases that commonly appear and the characteristics of later seals are also discussed. The second part focuses on 170 amulets in the collection preceded by an introduction to the subject. Research into the engraving techniques is presented with analysis of the stones used. This publication will be a standard work of reference for years to come.
Seals (Numismatics) --- Amulets --- Inscriptions, Persian --- Inscriptions, Arabic --- British Museum
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