ISBN:
0520208013
,
0520208021
,
9780520208025
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 214 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
DDC:
302.2/244/096209021
Keywords:
Fatimiden
;
Geschichte 969-1171
;
Arabisch schrift
;
Fatimiden
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Arabic language Social aspects
;
Fatimites Language
;
Written communication History
;
Arabisch
;
Beschilderung
;
Inschrift
;
Kairo
;
Fatimiden 909-1171
;
Kairo
;
Beschilderung
;
Geschichte 969-1171
;
Arabisch
;
Inschrift
;
Geschichte 969-1171
Abstract:
Explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language, as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. The author focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean in the 6th-12th centuries, particularly Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171.