Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East, A Bibliography, Volume 1 Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East 1965-1987

Biographical note Readership Reviews

Publication Type:

Reference Work

Pages, Illustrations:

xxvi, 568 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Publication Value:

Handbook

Biographical note

Ruud Strijp took his MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. e has published several articles on Islam in Tunisia and the Netherlands. Currently he is conducting his doctorate research on ethnicity and Islam among Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands.

Readership

Academic libraries, anthropologists, regional specialists, social scientists, educated laymen.

Reviews

'A monumental guide for the study of anthropology of the Middle East...A must for every social science reference collection.'
Choice, 1992
'...an impressive reference tool on the life and society of the Middle East which no student can afford to miss...the volume is a mine of scholarly information.'
Muslim World Book Review, 1996.

€136.00$189.00

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Volume:

106

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ISBN13:

9789004228450

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Forthcoming Title

The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria

Edited by Herbert Niehr

€218.00$282.00

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Volume:

105

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004257733

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Forthcoming Title

Ancient Synagogues - Archaeology and Art: New Discoveries and Current Research

Rachel Hachlili, University of Haifa

This publication is engaged in new discoveries and current research of the archaeology and art of ancient synagogues in the 1st century BCE to the 7th century CE.

€249.00$346.00

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Volume:

104

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004249523

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New Title

Ancient Egyptian Administration

Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno García, CNRS

The book provides an up-to-date overview of the structure, organization and evolution of the pharaonic administration from its origins to the middle of the first millennium BCE. General descriptions are supplemented by specific analysis of key archives, practices and institutions.

€237.00$329.00

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Volume:

103

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004234246

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Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba

Edited by Camilla Adang, Tel Aviv University, Maribel Fierro, CSIC, Madrid and Sabine Schmidtke, Freie Universität Berlin

This volume represents the state of the art in research on the Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain.

€123.00$171.00

Series:

Volume:

102

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004227422

Status:

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Andalusi Arabic

Edited by the Institute of Islamic Studies of the University of Zaragoza

Built on the scarce, but not insignificant surviving materials of Andalusi Arabic, this work provides a synchronic descriptive survey as complete as possible of its basic grammar and lexicon, plus some diachronic comparative remarks, allowing the reader to obtain a near accurate picture of this ...

€160.00$207.00

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Volume:

101

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004201019

Status:

A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai

Rudolf E. de Jong

This book complements A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill: 2000) thus completing the author's description of Bedouin dialects of Sinai. Earlier and new data are synthesized in a ...

€209.00$291.00

Series:

Volume:

100/3

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004248120

Status:

Forthcoming Title

Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte

Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich

The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Uzbekistan to Mauretania and Nigeria, from Malta to Sudan, and including the Ki-Nubi Creole as spoken ...

€209.00$297.00

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Volume:

100/2

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004211568

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Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte

Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich

€215.00$279.00

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Volume:

100/1

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004186644

Status:

Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte

Peter Behnsted and Manfred Woidich

€258.00$334.00

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Atlas

ISBN13:

9789004184015

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Special Maps of Persia 1477-1925

Cyrus Alai

This volume complements the best-seller and award-winning General Maps of Persia. Cyrus Alai continued his research and collected further material to produce this volume, covering every map of that region, other than general maps.