“…Siguiendo la estela del libro-entrevista Cien preguntas sobre el islam, en el que Samir abordaba los orígenes y la situación del islam tras los atentados del 11-S, se tratan en esta obra cuestiones de enorme actualidad, tales como la guerra civil a gran escala entre chiíes y suníes, la eclosión de las «primaveras árabes», el surgimiento del autodenominado Estado Islámico, el papel de los cristianos árabes, o la integración de los jóvenes musulmanes europeos de segunda y tercera generación. …”

“…Síntesis de la historia de los afrodescendientes en el conjunto de América Latina, desde México y el Caribe hasta Argentina, y desde el paso de la esclavitud a la libertad hasta la actualidad…”

“…De las cuentas prehistóricas al ábaco romano, y de los algoritmos árabes a las primeras calculadoras, la historia del cálculo lo es en buena parte también de los sistemas de numeración. …”

“…This volume, containing chapters in French (some translated from Arabic) and others in English, is a collective work, diverse and dynamic, analysing symbolic, discursive, archival, oral and archaeological data regarding the Palestinian social formation through time and space. …”

“…The treatise On the Mixture and Power of Simple Drugs (Περὶ κράσεως καὶ δυνάμεως τῶν ἁπλῶν φαρμάκων) by Galen of Pergamum (129-216) is transmitted in a number of Greek manuscripts, and was translated into Syriac and Arabic. One Greek manuscript, Vatican Urbinas gr. 67, contains a passage from book IX about digamma and ‘Armenian earth’, not transmitted in the majority of Greek manuscripts and not included in the standard Greek edition by Kühn (1826). …”

“…A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. …”

“…Qatar: Evidence of the Palaeolithic Earliest People Revealed, with full text in both English and Arabic, tells the story of the long and difficult search to discover the identity of the first people to inhabit the sovereign State of Qatar, which is situated on a peninsula, that extends into the Arabian Gulf. …”

“…With its more than a millennium of documented history, its complex interactions over the centuries with literature written in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Malay and Dutch, its often symbiotic relationship with the performing arts of puppetry and dance, and its own immense creativity and insight, this vastly understudied literature offers a lens to understanding Java's fascinating world as well as human ingenuity more broadly. …”

“…The book examines rhyme as practiced or as understood in English, Old English and Old Norse, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Karelian, Estonian, Medieval Latin, Arabic, and the Central Australian language Kaytetye. …”

“…The second edition: · includes nine new readings, by authors such as Jerome, Dryden, Schleiermacher, Derrida, and Mason, some appearing in inventive retranslations · provides an historical dimension, with texts from antiquity to present · represents a wide range of languages, from Arabic to Bengali, Italian to Russian · explores the interdisciplinary nature of translation studies through readings in fields such as literary theory and linguistics, philosophy and film studies…”
Sumario

“…"Coptic was the language spoken in Egypt from late ancient times to the seventeenth century, when it was overtaken by Arabic as the national language. Derived from ancient Egyptian, the language of the hieroglyphs, it was written in an adapted form of Greek script. …”

“…De las cuentas prehistóricas al ábaco romano, y de los algoritmos árabes a las primeras calculadoras, la historia del cálculo lo es en buena parte también de los sistemas de numeración. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front matter -- Índice -- Prefacio -- Fiesta y poder en el Caribe. Notas a propósito de los análisis de Ángel Quintero / Baile y ciudadanía. …”