Studia Arabica & Islamica, Festschrift For Ihsan Abbas

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4to - over 9ı" - 12" tall. 4to, xv 515 pp of English text + 296 pp of Arabic text, 2 folding tables. Hard back binding. Title gilt on Spine & Covers in English & Arabic. Copyin Mint condition. New. American University of Beirut, 1981. A series of studies in different fields of Islamic and Arabic culture, written by prominent Arab and western scholars in honour of Professor Ihsan Abbas, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Thirty five studies in English and German are published in which the contributors discusses Arabic language, islamic philosophy, islamic science, Arabic literature, Nestorians, Hanbalite, Islamic Spain, Arabic poetry, Islamic Egypt, Sudanese Muslim historians, Yemen, Palestine problem and Arab tribes. The Arabic section of this work contains twenty one study covering the works of Ihsan Abbas, Arabic poetry, Umayyad dynasty, Ottoman Empire, Andalusian Arabic literature, Islamic science, Al-Mahdiyya idea, Syriac language, Sufism, Fatimid dynasty and Fatimid period.