The Story of the Arabic Letters

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519262790
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of the Arabic Letters by : Rasha Alghusain

Download or read book The Story of the Arabic Letters written by Rasha Alghusain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Arabic Alphabet Letters. This simple story is designed to help children remember the names of the letters, their sound, and script.

The Republic of Arabic Letters

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674985672
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis The Republic of Arabic Letters by : Alexander Bevilacqua

Download or read book The Republic of Arabic Letters written by Alexander Bevilacqua and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Longman–History Today Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year “Deeply thoughtful...A delight.” —The Economist “[A] tour de force...Bevilacqua’s extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story...He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity.” —New Republic In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Western scholars laid the groundwork for the modern understanding of Islamic civilization. They produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an, mapped Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote Muslim history using Arabic sources. The Republic of Arabic Letters is the first account of this riveting lost period of cultural exchange, revealing the profound influence of Catholic and Protestant intellectuals on the Enlightenment understanding of Islam. “A closely researched and engrossing study of...those scholars who, having learned Arabic, used their mastery of that difficult language to interpret the Quran, study the career of Muhammad...and introduce Europeans to the masterpieces of Arabic literature.” —Robert Irwin, Wall Street Journal “Fascinating, eloquent, and learned, The Republic of Arabic Letters reveals a world later lost, in which European scholars studied Islam with a sense of affinity and respect...A powerful reminder of the ability of scholarship to transcend cultural divides, and the capacity of human minds to accept differences without denouncing them.” —Maya Jasanoff “What makes his study so groundbreaking, and such a joy to read, is the connection he makes between intellectual history and the material history of books.” —Financial Times

The Rise of the Arabic Book

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674987810
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rise of the Arabic Book by : Beatrice Gruendler

Download or read book The Rise of the Arabic Book written by Beatrice Gruendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.

A Brief Introduction to The Arabic Alphabet

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Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863568815
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Book Synopsis A Brief Introduction to The Arabic Alphabet by : John F. Healey

Download or read book A Brief Introduction to The Arabic Alphabet written by John F. Healey and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabic alphabet has a rich history, one that is closely linked with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. In this comprehensive introduction the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, which also gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. Using detailed illustrations the authors investigate early Arabic papyri and early Islamic inscriptions as well as classical Arabic scripts. John F. Healey and G. Rex Smith bring the story up to the present day by examining the practice of calligraphy, printing and computing in Arabic.

The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story

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Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884487563
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story by : Aya Khalil

Download or read book The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story written by Aya Khalil and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 ARAB AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER Children's Africana Book Award (CABA) 2021 Honor Book NCSS 2021 Notable Social Studies Book Kanzi’s family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that’s why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). When she leaves, the teasing starts. That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt her teita (grandma) in Cairo gave her and writes a poem in Arabic about the quilt. Next day her teacher sees the poem and gets the entire class excited about creating a “quilt” (a paper collage) of student names in Arabic. In the end, Kanzi’s most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one. This authentic story with beautiful illustrations includes a glossary of Arabic words and a presentation of Arabic letters with their phonetic English equivalents.

Letters of Light

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674971127
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters of Light by : J.R. Osborn

Download or read book Letters of Light written by J.R. Osborn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic script remains one of the most widely employed writing systems in the world, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. Focusing on naskh—the style most commonly used across the Middle East—Letters of Light traces the evolution of Arabic script from its earliest inscriptions to digital fonts, from calligraphy to print and beyond. J. R. Osborn narrates this storied past for historians of the Islamic and Arab worlds, for students of communication and technology, and for contemporary practitioners. The partnership of reed pen and paper during the tenth century inaugurated a golden age of Arabic writing. The shape and proportions of classical calligraphy known as al-khatt al-mansub were formalized, and variations emerged to suit different types of content. The rise of movable type quickly led to European experiments in printing Arabic texts. Ottoman Turkish printers, more sensitive than their European counterparts to the script’s nuances, adopted movable type more cautiously. Debates about “reforming” Arabic script for print technology persisted into the twentieth century. Arabic script continues to evolve in the digital age. Programmers have adapted it to the international Unicode standard, greatly facilitating Arabic presence online and in word processing. Technology companies are investing considerable resources to facilitate support of Arabic in their products. Professional designers around the world are bringing about a renaissance in the Arabic script community as they reinterpret classical aesthetics and push new boundaries in digital form.

The Arabic Alphabet

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Publisher : Lyle Stuart
ISBN 13 : 9780818404306
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Arabic Alphabet by : N. Awde

Download or read book The Arabic Alphabet written by N. Awde and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the basics of the Arabic language and provides instruction in the Arabic alphabet.

Arabic Short Stories, 1945-1965

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Arabic Short Stories, 1945-1965 by : Mahmoud Manzalaoui

Download or read book Arabic Short Stories, 1945-1965 written by Mahmoud Manzalaoui and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories in translation

The Written World of God

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1905937687
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis The Written World of God by : Dunja Rasic

Download or read book The Written World of God written by Dunja Rasic and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Written World of God is the first systematic overview of the science of letters ('ilm al-huruf) according to the great Andalusian spiritual master, scholar, poet and philosopher Ibn 'Arabi (d. 1240). Ibn 'Arabi defined the science of letters as familiarity with the building blocks of the Quranic revelation and everything in the world of nature. Letters are understood as visual and aural signs pointing to the mysteries of existence. The present study examines how the universe came to be, for what purpose it was created and the hierarchical structure it is endowed with. It is an old story told anew - through the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, their orthographic forms and the meanings attributed to them, using Ibn 'Arabi's own diagrams. Although the story could be told through geometric figures or numbers, letters were chosen on the basis of Ibn 'Arabi's doctrine that the meanings carried by the letters fully encompasses the whole of existence: God and the universe.

The World's Oldest Alphabet

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Publisher : Hendrickson Academic
ISBN 13 : 9789652208842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The World's Oldest Alphabet by : Douglas Petrovich

Download or read book The World's Oldest Alphabet written by Douglas Petrovich and published by Hendrickson Academic. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about 150 years, scholars have attempted to identify the language of the world's first alphabetic script, and to translate some of the inscriptions that use it. Until now, their attempts have accomplished little more than identifying most of the pictographic letters and translating a few of the Semitic words. With the publication of The World's Oldest Alphabet, a new day has dawned. All of the disputed letters have been resolved, while the language has been identified conclusively as Hebrew, allowing for the translation of 16 inscriptions that date from 1842 to 1446 BC. It is the author's reading that these inscriptions expressly name three biblical figures (Asenath, Ahisamach, and Moses) and greatly illuminate the earliest Israelite history in a way that no other book has achieved, apart from the Bible.

1001 Inventions & Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 142631258X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book 1001 Inventions & Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "1001 inventions, official children's companion to the exhibition"--Cover.

ألف باء : مدخل إلى حروف العربية وأصواتها

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Publisher : Answer Key for Alif Baa
ISBN 13 : 1589016343
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis ألف باء : مدخل إلى حروف العربية وأصواتها by : Kristen Brustad

Download or read book ألف باء : مدخل إلى حروف العربية وأصواتها written by Kristen Brustad and published by Answer Key for Alif Baa. This book was released on 2010 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This answer key is to be used with Alif Baa: Introduction to Letters and Sounds, Third Edition. Please note that this answer key is only useful to students and teachers who are NOT using the companion website, which includes self-correcting exercises.

From Ya to Ants

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ISBN 13 : 9781737937982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (379 download)

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Book Synopsis From Ya to Ants by : Sadaf Alam

Download or read book From Ya to Ants written by Sadaf Alam and published by . This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ya is a curious little boy - and the last letter of the Arabic alphabet, too. When he spots a trail of ants, he sets out on an adventure to find where they are going. But the journey is long, and no one is willing to help. Will Ya ever find out where the ants are going? Get kids excited about learning their alif baa taa's through ? A fun story ? Rhythmic language ? Beautiful illustrations Bonus! Hidden pictures all through the book keep kids engaged and reading the book over and over again.

Elementary Knowledge

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Elementary Knowledge by : Peter Haden

Download or read book Elementary Knowledge written by Peter Haden and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Write it in Arabic

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Publisher : [Oakville, Ont.] : Fun with Arabic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Write it in Arabic by : Naglaa Ghali

Download or read book Write it in Arabic written by Naglaa Ghali and published by [Oakville, Ont.] : Fun with Arabic. This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Write it in Arabic is an alphabet guide and workbook which offers a hands-on approach to learning Arabic. The book covers the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, numbers, vowel marks and handwriting. This workbook includes plenty of examples that teach how to read and write the Arabic script, guides students through the pronunciation of each letter while introducing them to new vocabulary. This book opens from right to left, like any book printed in Arabic.

My First Arabic Alphabet Book

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Publisher : Tahrike Tarsile Quran
ISBN 13 : 9780952789505
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)

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Book Synopsis My First Arabic Alphabet Book by : Siddiqa Juma

Download or read book My First Arabic Alphabet Book written by Siddiqa Juma and published by Tahrike Tarsile Quran. This book was released on 1996 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190844493
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives by : Jeffrey Einboden

Download or read book Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives written by Jeffrey Einboden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents delivered to the President in 1807 were penned by literate African slaves, and written entirely in Arabic. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives reveals the untold story of two escaped West Africans in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Recounting a quest for emancipation that crosses borders of race, region and religion, Jeffrey Einboden unearths Arabic manuscripts that circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, including a document from 1780s Georgia which Einboden identifies as the earliest surviving example of Muslim slave authorship in the newly-formed United States. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with slavery and Islam, Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives tracks the ascent of Arabic slave writings to the highest halls of U.S. power, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten.