Showing posts with label linguistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linguistics. Show all posts
March 6, 2011

Book Review: "God and Man in the Koran"

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There is a reason Toshihiko Izutsu's book is available through Islamic booksellers online: its a great introduction to what is at stake ...
September 26, 2009

The Ottoman Empire in East Africa

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The Ottoman Empire began its march to dominance as a band of Turcoman nomads from Central Asia. Several centuries later, they were the globa...
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September 18, 2009

African Languages and the World of IT

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In a bit of tech-nerd glocal news, Afrigen and the ANLoc are hard at work making the web accessible for hundreds of different African lang...
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November 24, 2008

The Swahili Coast, 2nd to 19th Centuries

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The Swahili Coast, 2nd to 19th Centuries by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville I am reading this book in companion with East Africa and The Orient: C...
October 22, 2008

The Aesthetics of Hospitality

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Since my friend and comrade Dr. Pitts has yet to write his eagerly anticipated treatise on Arab hospitality, allow me to make the first fora...
October 20, 2008

Austrian Anthropologists Work on Arabic and Swahili Dialects

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A set of books I would like to own, but probably never will...they cost over $1600. Description: Volume I, " Die Somali-Sprache, Texte...
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September 2, 2008

Istalihi za Kiswahili

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The Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa (BAKITA) is the national body for the Swahili language in Tanzania, and is on the forefront of efforts to m...