Author: Tarek Mahfouz
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781304744517
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This is the most comprehensive Arabic alphabet textbook ever presented to those learning Arabic as a second language. Each Arabic letter is given a full examination, including its characteristics, points of articulation and different shapes, along with many exercises to practice reading and writing the script. The rules of writing are also analyzed, as well as both naskh and ruqah scripts, dots, line rules, ligatures, ascending and descending letters, goblet shapes, plate shapes, diphthongs and Arabic handwriting, and everything else you would expect from an Arabic alphabet textbook. You will learn the characteristics of the Arabic letters (e.g. emphatic and vibrating sounds) and Letters with Meaning. There is a section with a list of words whose pronunciation is the same as their English cognates, and other mnemonic techniques. We discuss the theory of perfect proportion for stand-alone letters, essential in balanced Arabic script. All texts are fully vocalized.
Arabic for Donkeys
Author: Tarek Mahfouz
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781304744517
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This is the most comprehensive Arabic alphabet textbook ever presented to those learning Arabic as a second language. Each Arabic letter is given a full examination, including its characteristics, points of articulation and different shapes, along with many exercises to practice reading and writing the script. The rules of writing are also analyzed, as well as both naskh and ruqah scripts, dots, line rules, ligatures, ascending and descending letters, goblet shapes, plate shapes, diphthongs and Arabic handwriting, and everything else you would expect from an Arabic alphabet textbook. You will learn the characteristics of the Arabic letters (e.g. emphatic and vibrating sounds) and Letters with Meaning. There is a section with a list of words whose pronunciation is the same as their English cognates, and other mnemonic techniques. We discuss the theory of perfect proportion for stand-alone letters, essential in balanced Arabic script. All texts are fully vocalized.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781304744517
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This is the most comprehensive Arabic alphabet textbook ever presented to those learning Arabic as a second language. Each Arabic letter is given a full examination, including its characteristics, points of articulation and different shapes, along with many exercises to practice reading and writing the script. The rules of writing are also analyzed, as well as both naskh and ruqah scripts, dots, line rules, ligatures, ascending and descending letters, goblet shapes, plate shapes, diphthongs and Arabic handwriting, and everything else you would expect from an Arabic alphabet textbook. You will learn the characteristics of the Arabic letters (e.g. emphatic and vibrating sounds) and Letters with Meaning. There is a section with a list of words whose pronunciation is the same as their English cognates, and other mnemonic techniques. We discuss the theory of perfect proportion for stand-alone letters, essential in balanced Arabic script. All texts are fully vocalized.
How Many Donkeys?
Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807592803
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2010 Best English Language Children's Book, Sharjah International Book Fair Jouha gets confused counting his donkeys while leading them to market. Jouha is loading his donkeys with dates to sell at the market. How many donkeys are there? His son helps him count ten, but once the journey starts, things change. First there are ten donkeys, then there are nine! When Jouha stops to count again, the lost donkey is back. What's going on? Silly Jouha doesn't get it, but by the end of the story, wise readers will be counting correctly−and in Arabic!
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807592803
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2010 Best English Language Children's Book, Sharjah International Book Fair Jouha gets confused counting his donkeys while leading them to market. Jouha is loading his donkeys with dates to sell at the market. How many donkeys are there? His son helps him count ten, but once the journey starts, things change. First there are ten donkeys, then there are nine! When Jouha stops to count again, the lost donkey is back. What's going on? Silly Jouha doesn't get it, but by the end of the story, wise readers will be counting correctly−and in Arabic!
The Wisdom of Donkeys
Author: Andy Merrifield
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802718728
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A literary ode to peace, presence, and fulfillment inspired by a walk taken with a most surprising creature. "The demon of speed is often associated with forgetting, with avoidance . . . and slowness with memory and confronting," observes Milan Kundera in his novel Slowness. With that purpose in mind-a search for slowness and tranquility, Andy Merrifield sets out on a journey of the soul with a friend's donkey, Gribouille, to walk amid the ruins and spectacular vistas of southern France's Haute-Auvergne. As Merrifield contemplates literature, science, truth, and beauty amid the French countryside, Gribouille surprises him with his subtle wisdom, reminding him time and again that enlightenment is all around us if we but seek it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802718728
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A literary ode to peace, presence, and fulfillment inspired by a walk taken with a most surprising creature. "The demon of speed is often associated with forgetting, with avoidance . . . and slowness with memory and confronting," observes Milan Kundera in his novel Slowness. With that purpose in mind-a search for slowness and tranquility, Andy Merrifield sets out on a journey of the soul with a friend's donkey, Gribouille, to walk amid the ruins and spectacular vistas of southern France's Haute-Auvergne. As Merrifield contemplates literature, science, truth, and beauty amid the French countryside, Gribouille surprises him with his subtle wisdom, reminding him time and again that enlightenment is all around us if we but seek it.
Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
Author: Patricia Crone
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521211338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A study of Islamic civilisation and the intimate link between Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521211338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A study of Islamic civilisation and the intimate link between Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam.
The Donkey Who Carried a King
Author: R. C. Sproul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567692693
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Davey the donkey was never chosen to do anything, until the day he found himself carrying the King. After that, he felt proud of himself, until he saw what the King had to carry"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567692693
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Davey the donkey was never chosen to do anything, until the day he found himself carrying the King. After that, he felt proud of himself, until he saw what the King had to carry"--Page 4 of cover.
The Donkey King
Author: Emily Selove
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009084437
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī's Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Abū Isrā'īl Būzayn ibn Sulaymān, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology, and explains why this animal has served as the companion of both demons and prophets. Focusing on two nodes of donkey symbology—the phallus and the bray-it reveals a coincidentia oppositorum in a deceptively humble and comic animal form. Thus, the donkey, bearer of a demonic voice, and of a phallus symbolic of base materiality, also represents transcendence of the material and protection from the demonic. In addition to Arabic literature and occult rituals, the Element refers to evidence from the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, as well as to medieval Jewish and Christian texts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009084437
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī's Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Abū Isrā'īl Būzayn ibn Sulaymān, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology, and explains why this animal has served as the companion of both demons and prophets. Focusing on two nodes of donkey symbology—the phallus and the bray-it reveals a coincidentia oppositorum in a deceptively humble and comic animal form. Thus, the donkey, bearer of a demonic voice, and of a phallus symbolic of base materiality, also represents transcendence of the material and protection from the demonic. In addition to Arabic literature and occult rituals, the Element refers to evidence from the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, as well as to medieval Jewish and Christian texts.
The Donkey Egg
Author: Janet Stevens
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0547327676
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
After fast-talking Fox leaves him with a large, green egg, Bear spends minutes, hours, days, and weeks lovingly caring for it with the help of his neighbor Hare.
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0547327676
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
After fast-talking Fox leaves him with a large, green egg, Bear spends minutes, hours, days, and weeks lovingly caring for it with the help of his neighbor Hare.
Arabic Traces in the Hebrew Writing of Arab Authors in Israel
Author: Aadel Shakkour
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527574369
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book provides pioneering research on the Hebrew writings of Arab authors in Israel. It shows how authors in their Hebrew writings try to give their characters an authentic air and to create an atmosphere of authentic culture, and highlights archaic Hebrew syntactic structures that are similar to their Arabic counterparts in order to transmit Arab cultural elements. Language, after all, also serves to mediate between cultures, in addition to its function as a means of medium of communication. The text shows how Arab writers, through their translations point, to Arab culture as a possible model of imitation, as a bridge over what they perceive as a gap between the source and the target cultures. The authors thus see themselves not merely as composers of Hebrew literature, or as translators of Arabic literature into Hebrew, but also as messengers who serve as a bridge between Arabic and Hebrew cultures, and possibly as potential contributors to resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527574369
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book provides pioneering research on the Hebrew writings of Arab authors in Israel. It shows how authors in their Hebrew writings try to give their characters an authentic air and to create an atmosphere of authentic culture, and highlights archaic Hebrew syntactic structures that are similar to their Arabic counterparts in order to transmit Arab cultural elements. Language, after all, also serves to mediate between cultures, in addition to its function as a means of medium of communication. The text shows how Arab writers, through their translations point, to Arab culture as a possible model of imitation, as a bridge over what they perceive as a gap between the source and the target cultures. The authors thus see themselves not merely as composers of Hebrew literature, or as translators of Arabic literature into Hebrew, but also as messengers who serve as a bridge between Arabic and Hebrew cultures, and possibly as potential contributors to resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict.
The Donkey in Human History
Author: Peter Mitchell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192538128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East, they have been (and in many places still are) a core technology for moving people and goods over both short and long distances, as well as a supplier of muscle power for threshing and grinding grain, pressing olives, raising water, ploughing fields, and pulling carts, to name just a few of the uses to which they have been put. Yet despite this, they remain one of the least studied, and most widely ignored, of all domestic animals, consigned to the margins of history like so many of those who still depend upon them. Spanning the globe and extending from the donkey's initial domestication up to the present, this book seeks to remedy this situation by using archaeological evidence, in combination with insights from history and anthropology, to resituate the donkey (and its hybrid offspring such as the mule) in the unfolding of human history, looking not just at what donkeys and mules did, but also at how people have thought about and understood them. Intended in part for university researchers and students working in the broad fields of world history, archaeology, animal history, and anthropology, but it should also interest anyone keen to learn more about one of the most widespread and important of the animals that people have domesticated.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192538128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East, they have been (and in many places still are) a core technology for moving people and goods over both short and long distances, as well as a supplier of muscle power for threshing and grinding grain, pressing olives, raising water, ploughing fields, and pulling carts, to name just a few of the uses to which they have been put. Yet despite this, they remain one of the least studied, and most widely ignored, of all domestic animals, consigned to the margins of history like so many of those who still depend upon them. Spanning the globe and extending from the donkey's initial domestication up to the present, this book seeks to remedy this situation by using archaeological evidence, in combination with insights from history and anthropology, to resituate the donkey (and its hybrid offspring such as the mule) in the unfolding of human history, looking not just at what donkeys and mules did, but also at how people have thought about and understood them. Intended in part for university researchers and students working in the broad fields of world history, archaeology, animal history, and anthropology, but it should also interest anyone keen to learn more about one of the most widespread and important of the animals that people have domesticated.
The Donkey and the Boat
Author: Chris Wickham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259849X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies, and their relationships with each other. Chris Wickham offers a new account of the Mediterranean economy in the tenth to twelfth centuries, based on a completely new look at the sources, documentary and archaeological. Our knowledge of the Mediterranean economy is based on syntheses which are between 50 and 150 years old; they are based on outdated assumptions and restricted data sets, and were written before there was any usable archaeology; and Wickham contends that they have to be properly rethought. This is the first book ever to give a fully detailed comparative account of the regions of the Mediterranean in this period, in their internal economies and in their relationships with each other. It focusses on Egypt, Tunisia, Sicily, the Byzantine empire, Islamic Spain and Portugal, and north-central Italy, and gives the first comprehensive account of the changing economies of each; only Byzantium has a good prior synthesis. It aims to force our rethinking of how economies worked in the medieval Mediterranean. It also offers a rethinking of how we should understand the underlying logic of the medieval economy in general.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259849X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies, and their relationships with each other. Chris Wickham offers a new account of the Mediterranean economy in the tenth to twelfth centuries, based on a completely new look at the sources, documentary and archaeological. Our knowledge of the Mediterranean economy is based on syntheses which are between 50 and 150 years old; they are based on outdated assumptions and restricted data sets, and were written before there was any usable archaeology; and Wickham contends that they have to be properly rethought. This is the first book ever to give a fully detailed comparative account of the regions of the Mediterranean in this period, in their internal economies and in their relationships with each other. It focusses on Egypt, Tunisia, Sicily, the Byzantine empire, Islamic Spain and Portugal, and north-central Italy, and gives the first comprehensive account of the changing economies of each; only Byzantium has a good prior synthesis. It aims to force our rethinking of how economies worked in the medieval Mediterranean. It also offers a rethinking of how we should understand the underlying logic of the medieval economy in general.