The libraries of Tunis are considered lost since the sack of the city by European armies in 1535. This study reconstructs the original holdings of Tunis’ medieval libraries by bringing together dispersed manuscripts from over 30 library collections worldwide. The outcome is twofold: the book maps the networks of the first European Orientalists and, by doing so, retrieves from oblivion an impo…
Considering their imposing nature, this study thus aims to find out how the communities coped with the investments associated with manufacturing the buildings. Analysing the cost of large-scale construction for a society has been researched before (e.g. Abrams and Bolland 1999, who focused on Central America), but few have made Mycenaean Greece the primary focus of such…
The last two decades have seenadynamic increase in the number of activitiesthat are explicitlylinked to the notion of interreligious dialogue (IRD). All overthe world, empirical research projects underlinethe establishment of highlycomplex local scenes of these types of initiatives.¹Especiallyatthe nationallevel, it is possibleto identifyasignificant increase in dialogue organizations–either…
n a suggestive passage, Wilfred Thesiger, or, as his Arab friends affectionately called him, Mubarak bin London, described his encounter with the people of the Empty Quarter in the following terms:“The northern Arabs had no traditions of civiliza-tion behind them. To arrange three stones as a fireplace on which to set a pot was the only archi-tecture that many …