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"In The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD, the authors present a study of the funerary inscriptions based upon fieldwork completed in Bahrain between 2013-2015. A comprehensive illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones in 26 locations is provided with transcription of...
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| Group Author: | ; |
| Published: |
Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, The Near and Middle East,
volume 126 |
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| Summary: |
"In The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD, the authors present a study of the funerary inscriptions based upon fieldwork completed in Bahrain between 2013-2015. A comprehensive illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones in 26 locations is provided with transcription of the inscriptions into modern Arabic and translation into English. Subjects considered include: the history of Islamic burial, gravestone, and cemetery research on Bahrain, gravestone chronology, gravestone and cemetery types, stone sources and gravestone manufacture, the gravestone inscriptions, conte |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 490 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [483]-486) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004380783 9004380787 |
| Index Number: | DS247 |
| CLC: |
K883.867.42 K883.868.8 |
| Call Number: | K883.868.8/I592 |