Legal and Economic Documents (Pt.1) (Studies in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0197275028 ISBN 13: 9780197275023

Verlag: Khalili Collections, 2001

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The printing is of exemplary quality ... the texts are exceptionally easy to use ... The very valuable Glossary of 64 pages gives complete loci, variant spellings, grammatical notes, with etymologies, mostly of self-evident clarity. I have the impression that the known vocabulary of Bactrian has been more than doubled ... outstanding piece of work. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society We owe to Professor Sims-Williams the first really extensive...

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Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed...

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• Verlag: Khalili Collections
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0197275028
• ISBN 13: 9780197275023
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Sims-Williams Nicholas