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The Muslim Geographical Image of the World in the middle Ages. A Source Study - ebook
The Muslim Geographical Image of the World in the middle Ages. A Source Study - ebook
Oparta na bogatej bibliografii arabskiej i opracowaniach naukowych z całego świata analiza wiedzy geograficznej, znajomości kosmografii i astronomii w świecie muzułmańskim w średniowieczu. Arabowie czerpali tę wiedzę m. in. z nauki starożytnej Grecji i Rzymu, ale także z Persji i Indii. Dzięki niej świat, który z powodzeniem wówczas podbijali, nie był dla nich nieodgadnioną zagadką.
Kategoria: | Nonfiction |
Język: | Angielski |
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ISBN: | 978-83-8002-055-9 |
Rozmiar pliku: | 9,3 MB |
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The series includes books written in foreign languages by distinguished Polish specialists in Asian and African studies
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Rajmund Ohly, Herero Ecology: the Literary Impact, Warszawa 2000.
This is an innovative and original study, which offers a new perspective on a Namibian literary tradition. The author grounds his exploration in the intrinsic and extrinsic issues of Herero oral literature from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Herero oral literature originates in the areas inhibited by the Herero people in Namibia and part of Botswana. The chapters illustrate and analyse the emergence of Herero prose and poetry, its preservation, and evolution. The book sets out to define the continuum of this oral literature, which is strictly connected with the socio-cultural evolution of the society, forming the environment of Herero literature.
Mamluk Sultan Qalāwūm, Warszawa 2000.
The book is a contribution to the studies on the Mamluk military institution, Mamluk culture and Mamluk society. It consists of two parts: a critical edition of the Arabic medieval manuscript constitutes the main body of the work. The manuscript is a biography of al-Mansur Qalawun, one of the Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria at the end of XIII century and who played a decisive part in defeating Mongol and Crusading armies; the edition is preceded by a detailed introduction.
Ewa Machut-Mendecka, Studies in Arabic Theatre and Literature, Warszawa 2000.
This is a pioneer book devoted to rich literature of the contemporary Arab world, dealing with prose and drama. This literary output abounds in tens of important names of writers and hundreds of interesting works. The book correctly reveals the most important literary phenomena as well as most interesting concepts and topics of this immense output. It outlines a colorful and exciting, even though frequently dramatic, picture of life of the contemporary Arabs. The author gives a thorough presentation of the contemporary Arabic literature and she succeeds in this difficult task by reaching its deepest meanings. The author proves that the essence of this literature consists in a never-ending search for cultural identity of the writers as well as for an uncompromising settling of accounts with own history, which is not only a medium of the flourishing civilization of Islam but also a source of the most serious problems today.
Zofia Podobińska, Politesse dans les Actes Pragmatiques en siwahili, Warszawa 2001.
This work reveals important rules of the language use by the Swahili speakers. From the theoretical and methodological points of view it has been inspired by the recent research on verbal behavior in the aspect of politeness phenomena. The author analyses the realization patterns of direct speech acts regarding three levels of languages: syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. The data source consists of theatre plays by various authors from Tanzania and Kenya, mainly realistic works dealing with contemporary subject matter. The present study is an original and important contribution to the research on communication competence in the Swahili language.
Danuta Madeyska, Poetics of the Sirah. A Study of the Arabic Chivalrous Romance, Warszawa 2001.
The book is devoted to the formal aspects of the early sirahs, i.e. Arabic chivalrous romances which were already well known as large works in the 12^(th) century prior to their writing down in the 14-16 centuries. An attempt was made to find out and determine the principles of the organisation of verbal material into content entities called “themes”, as well as the rules of constructing the largest composition units in sirah, i.e. tales.
Nina Pawlak, Hausa outside the mother area. Plateau variety, Warszawa 2002.
The description of Hausa spoken outside the mother area has two main issues in view. Firstly, it is to document the variety of language, which is known mainly from its use in the Hausaland proper. Secondly, it is to add some more factors to the ongoing discussion on the mechanisms of language change and development. Hausa spoken in Jos, as exemplified by individual variants recorded in 1999, documents the language distinguished by the peculiar features, different from the language of the mother area. The Plateau norm is characterized by some changes, which are influenced by contact with other languages of the area. The collected materials allow distinguishing two distinct levels, representing two classes of language-development patterns. It is the modification of the language from the Hausaland proper on one hand, and the varieties termed often as simplified or pidginized languages on the other. The first variety integrates the features of native and non-native forms; the second variety relies on new grammatical systems, referring to the indigenous languages and to universal grammar patterns.