This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and patterns. It examines ma
This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and patterns. It examines ma
What little is known of Ya'qubi's life suggests that he was of notable Iraqi birth and education, and spent much of his professional life in the employment of provincial governing families of the
Representing some of the earliest secular literature of Islam, al-Ya'qubi seems to have been of notable Iraqi birth and education and to have spent his professional life in the service of provincia
The Works of Ibn Wa?i? al-Ya?qubi (3 vols.) contains a translation of the writings of Abu al-`Abbas al-Ya`qubi, a Muslim polymath of the third/ninth century. The works include the History (Ta’rikh); t
