Writing signs : the Fatimid public text / Irene A. Bierman.

By:

Bierman, Irene A

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 214 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520918788
0520918789
0585105642
9780585105642
9780520208025
0520208021
9780520208018
0520208013

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing signs.DDC classification:

302.2/244/096209021 21

LOC classification:

P211.3.E3 B54 1998eb

Other classification:

06.09
EN 1100
EN 2820
NM 3715

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Contents:

Initial Considerations -- Signing the Community -- The Fatimid Public Text and the Sign of Ismàilism -- The Fatimid Public Text in a Changing Political Climate.

Summary: Explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language, as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. The author focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean in the 6th-12th centuries, particularly Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index.

Initial Considerations -- Signing the Community -- The Fatimid Public Text and the Sign of Ismàilism -- The Fatimid Public Text in a Changing Political Climate.

Explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language, as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. The author focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean in the 6th-12th centuries, particularly Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171.