Adam Gacek
Biographic Data
| ID | 715821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Gacek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Gacek |
| SIGNATURE | GACEK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Ismaili Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0836-2976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arabic Manuscripts
Arranged alphabetically by subject and/or concept, the present handbook has been conceived, for convenience sake and quick reference, as an aid to students and researchers who are often puzzled or even sometimes intimidated by the ‘mysterious’ world of Arabic manuscripts and the technical language that goes with it. A companion volume to the recently published The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (2001) and its Supplement (2008), the vademecum compris…
On the Making of Local Paper
Cet article propose l'analyse et la traduction d'une recette de fabrication du papier provenant du Yémen au XIIIe siècle. C'est jusqu'à présent la deuxième recette de ce type en arabe qui ait été retrouvée. La première est donnée dans la 'Umdat al-kuttâb d'Ibn Bâdîs (m. 454/1062) ; celle-ci est un chapitre de la Mukhtara' fî funûn min al-ṣuna' attribuée à al-Malik al-Muẓaffar (m. 694/1294) qui explique comment fabriquer du papier à partir d'écorc…
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
peer reviewed
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
Covering the entire spectrum of Arabic manuscripts, and especially the handwritten book, this book consists of a glossary of technical terms and a bibliography. The technical terms, collected from a variety of sources, embrace a vast range of topics dealing with the making and reading (studying) of Arabic manuscripts. They include: the Arabic scripts, penmanship, writing materials and implements, the make-up of the codex, copying and correction, …
Arabic Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University
C. Reviews and notes
THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF ISLAM. By CYRIL GLASSÉ. London, Stacey International, 1989. 472pp. Ills., maps, plans. £30.00 THE NEAR EAST NATIONAL UNION LIST. Volume 1. Compiled by DOROTHY STEHLE, under the direction of GEORGE N. ATIYEH. Washington, Library of Congress, 1988. ix, 867pp. USS 47.00. MUDEJARES: REPERTORIO BIBLIOGRAFICO. Compiled by PAZ FERNANDEZ. (Cuadernos de la Biblioteca Islámica ‘Félix María Pareja’, 18.) Madrid, Instituto Hispano…
C. Reviews and notes
FIHRIS AL‐KHIZANAH AL‐'ILMIYYA AL‐SUBAYHIYYA BI‐SALA. CATALOG OF SUBAIHEYYA LIBRARY IN SALA. By MUHAMMAD HAJJI. Kuwait, MaTiad al‐Makhtūtat al‐'Arabiyya (Institute of Arab Manuscripts), 1985.722pp., illus. i. FIHRIS MAKHTÜTAT MAKTABAT KÜPRILI. CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE KÖPRÜLÜ LIBRARY. Prepared by RAMAZAN SESEN, CEVAT İZGİ, CEMIL AKPINAR. Istanbul, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture, 1406/1986. 3 vols. 609, 34; 647; 639,22…
B. Reviews
INDEX DES HITAT: INDEX ANALYTIQUE DES OUVRAGES D'IBN DUQMAQ ET DE MAQRIZI SUR LE CAIRE. Volumes I‐III. By AHMAD ‘ABD AL‐MAJID HARIDI. (Textes arabes et études islamiques, XX.) Cairo, Institut François d'Archéologie Orientale, 1983–84. 3 vols. 463; 221; 389 pp. WESTERN SAHARA: A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Compiled by LYNN F. SIPE. (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, 178). New York, Garland Publishing, 1984. 418pp. One map (based on Unit…
C. Reviews and notes
FAHARIS AL‐MAKHTUTAT AL‐'ARABIYYA FI AL‐'ALAM. Compiled by KURKIS ‘AWWAD. Kuwait, Ma'had al‐Makhtūtat al‐'Arabiyya, 1984. 2 vols. 445; 448pp. A SURVEY OF THE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE EGYPTIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY. By DAVID A. KING. (American Research Center in Egypt: Catalogs, 5.) Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1986. xiv, 331pp. (incl. illustrations on pp.221–331). US $54.50 (cloth); US $39.50 (paperback). AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC SCIENCE…
A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library
C. Reviews and notes
BIBLIOGRAPHIE ZUR DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN ISLAMWISSENSCHAFT UND SEMITISTIK VOM ANFANG DES 19. JAHRUNDERTS BIS HEUTE, Bd. I By Erik Bär. Wiesbaden, Reichert, 1985. 572pp. DM 180. A COLLECTION OF ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING SOME TURKISH AND PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. By Hans Daiber. Revised edition with indexes. Amsterdam, s.n., 1986. iv, 181pp. GUIDE TO SIRA AND HADITH LITERATURE IN WESTERN LANGUAGES. By MUNAWAR AHMAD ANEES and Alia N. Athar. (East‐West Univ…
C. Reviews and notes
KNOW THE MIDDLE EAST. By John Laffin. Gloucester, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1985. 188pp. £3.95. INFORMATION SERVICES IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EXPERT STUDIES AND REPORTS ON LIBRARY, INFORMATION AND ARCHIVE SERVICES. Compiled by Mumtaz A. Anwar. (Libraries and Librarianship in the Muslim World.) London, Mansell, 1985. 146pp. £21.00. MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1960–1984. By Daniel Joly and J⊘rgen Nielsen. Co…
C. Reviews and notes
i. MILLE ET UN LIVRES SUR LE MONDE ARABE: CATALOGUE D'OUVRAGES DE RECHERCHE ET DE DOCUMENTATION ÉDITÉS EN FRANCE. Published by the Centre Interinstitutionnel pour la Diffusion de Publications en Sciences Humaines; preface by A. MIQUEL. Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984. pp.290 + 12. List of prices, loosely inserted. ii. GESCHICHTE DES ARABISCHEN SCHRIFTTUMS. Band IX: GRAMMATIK. BIS ca. 430 H. By FUAT SEZGIN. Leiden, E.J.B…
Library resources at the institute of Ismaili studies, London
B. Reviews
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ARABIC LITERATURE. Volume 1: Arabic Literature to the End of the Unayyad Period. Edited by A.F.L. Beeston, T.M.Johnstone, R.B.Serjeant and G.R.Smith, pp.xvi, 547. Cambridge University Press, 1983. £37.95. AL‐MAQRIZI'S “BOOK OF CONTENTION AND STRIFE CONCERNING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE BANU UMAYYA AND THE BANU HASHIM”. Translated into English, with an introduction and commentary by C.E.Bosworth. (Journal of Semitic Studies…
Some remarks on the cataloguing of Arabic manuscripts
As is well known, the first catalogues of Arabic manuscripts were published in western Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century and were compiled mainly in Latin. From that time until the early nineteenth century about thirty of them were produced. (1) It is the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century which saw the great production of catalogues raisonnes, with W.Ahlwardt's Verzeichnis(2) as a prime example.(3)
C. Reviews and notes
i. Bibliografiia arabskikh rukopisei. Compiled by I.B.Mikhailova and A.B.Khalidov. Moscow, Nauka, 1982. pp.392. ii. Britain's Elusive Empire in the Middle East: an Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by W.J.Olson. New York, Garland Publishing, 1982. pp.xvii, 404. iii. Bibliographie über die Golfstaaten und ihre Energiepolitik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Energiepolitik Irans und seiner Stellung in der Colfregion. (Europäische Hochschulschri…
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
peer reviewed
Some remarks on the cataloguing of Arabic manuscripts
As is well known, the first catalogues of Arabic manuscripts were published in western Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century and were compiled mainly in Latin. From that time until the early nineteenth century about thirty of them were produced. (1) It is the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century which saw the great production of catalogues raisonnes, with W.Ahlwardt's Verzeichnis(2) as a prime example.(3)
C. Reviews and notes
i. Bibliografiia arabskikh rukopisei. Compiled by I.B.Mikhailova and A.B.Khalidov. Moscow, Nauka, 1982. pp.392. ii. Britain's Elusive Empire in the Middle East: an Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by W.J.Olson. New York, Garland Publishing, 1982. pp.xvii, 404. iii. Bibliographie über die Golfstaaten und ihre Energiepolitik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Energiepolitik Irans und seiner Stellung in der Colfregion. (Europäische Hochschulschri…
Library resources at the institute of Ismaili studies, London
B. Reviews
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ARABIC LITERATURE. Volume 1: Arabic Literature to the End of the Unayyad Period. Edited by A.F.L. Beeston, T.M.Johnstone, R.B.Serjeant and G.R.Smith, pp.xvi, 547. Cambridge University Press, 1983. £37.95. AL‐MAQRIZI'S “BOOK OF CONTENTION AND STRIFE CONCERNING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE BANU UMAYYA AND THE BANU HASHIM”. Translated into English, with an introduction and commentary by C.E.Bosworth. (Journal of Semitic Studies…
C. Reviews and notes
i. MILLE ET UN LIVRES SUR LE MONDE ARABE: CATALOGUE D'OUVRAGES DE RECHERCHE ET DE DOCUMENTATION ÉDITÉS EN FRANCE. Published by the Centre Interinstitutionnel pour la Diffusion de Publications en Sciences Humaines; preface by A. MIQUEL. Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984. pp.290 + 12. List of prices, loosely inserted. ii. GESCHICHTE DES ARABISCHEN SCHRIFTTUMS. Band IX: GRAMMATIK. BIS ca. 430 H. By FUAT SEZGIN. Leiden, E.J.B…
C. Reviews and notes
KNOW THE MIDDLE EAST. By John Laffin. Gloucester, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1985. 188pp. £3.95. INFORMATION SERVICES IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EXPERT STUDIES AND REPORTS ON LIBRARY, INFORMATION AND ARCHIVE SERVICES. Compiled by Mumtaz A. Anwar. (Libraries and Librarianship in the Muslim World.) London, Mansell, 1985. 146pp. £21.00. MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1960–1984. By Daniel Joly and J⊘rgen Nielsen. Co…
C. Reviews and notes
BIBLIOGRAPHIE ZUR DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN ISLAMWISSENSCHAFT UND SEMITISTIK VOM ANFANG DES 19. JAHRUNDERTS BIS HEUTE, Bd. I By Erik Bär. Wiesbaden, Reichert, 1985. 572pp. DM 180. A COLLECTION OF ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING SOME TURKISH AND PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. By Hans Daiber. Revised edition with indexes. Amsterdam, s.n., 1986. iv, 181pp. GUIDE TO SIRA AND HADITH LITERATURE IN WESTERN LANGUAGES. By MUNAWAR AHMAD ANEES and Alia N. Athar. (East‐West Univ…
C. Reviews and notes
FIHRIS AL‐KHIZANAH AL‐'ILMIYYA AL‐SUBAYHIYYA BI‐SALA. CATALOG OF SUBAIHEYYA LIBRARY IN SALA. By MUHAMMAD HAJJI. Kuwait, MaTiad al‐Makhtūtat al‐'Arabiyya (Institute of Arab Manuscripts), 1985.722pp., illus. i. FIHRIS MAKHTÜTAT MAKTABAT KÜPRILI. CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE KÖPRÜLÜ LIBRARY. Prepared by RAMAZAN SESEN, CEVAT İZGİ, CEMIL AKPINAR. Istanbul, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture, 1406/1986. 3 vols. 609, 34; 647; 639,22…
B. Reviews
INDEX DES HITAT: INDEX ANALYTIQUE DES OUVRAGES D'IBN DUQMAQ ET DE MAQRIZI SUR LE CAIRE. Volumes I‐III. By AHMAD ‘ABD AL‐MAJID HARIDI. (Textes arabes et études islamiques, XX.) Cairo, Institut François d'Archéologie Orientale, 1983–84. 3 vols. 463; 221; 389 pp. WESTERN SAHARA: A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Compiled by LYNN F. SIPE. (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, 178). New York, Garland Publishing, 1984. 418pp. One map (based on Unit…
C. Reviews and notes
FAHARIS AL‐MAKHTUTAT AL‐'ARABIYYA FI AL‐'ALAM. Compiled by KURKIS ‘AWWAD. Kuwait, Ma'had al‐Makhtūtat al‐'Arabiyya, 1984. 2 vols. 445; 448pp. A SURVEY OF THE SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE EGYPTIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY. By DAVID A. KING. (American Research Center in Egypt: Catalogs, 5.) Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1986. xiv, 331pp. (incl. illustrations on pp.221–331). US $54.50 (cloth); US $39.50 (paperback). AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC SCIENCE…
A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library
C. Reviews and notes
THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF ISLAM. By CYRIL GLASSÉ. London, Stacey International, 1989. 472pp. Ills., maps, plans. £30.00 THE NEAR EAST NATIONAL UNION LIST. Volume 1. Compiled by DOROTHY STEHLE, under the direction of GEORGE N. ATIYEH. Washington, Library of Congress, 1988. ix, 867pp. USS 47.00. MUDEJARES: REPERTORIO BIBLIOGRAFICO. Compiled by PAZ FERNANDEZ. (Cuadernos de la Biblioteca Islámica ‘Félix María Pareja’, 18.) Madrid, Instituto Hispano…
Arabic Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
Covering the entire spectrum of Arabic manuscripts, and especially the handwritten book, this book consists of a glossary of technical terms and a bibliography. The technical terms, collected from a variety of sources, embrace a vast range of topics dealing with the making and reading (studying) of Arabic manuscripts. They include: the Arabic scripts, penmanship, writing materials and implements, the make-up of the codex, copying and correction, …
On the Making of Local Paper
Cet article propose l'analyse et la traduction d'une recette de fabrication du papier provenant du Yémen au XIIIe siècle. C'est jusqu'à présent la deuxième recette de ce type en arabe qui ait été retrouvée. La première est donnée dans la 'Umdat al-kuttâb d'Ibn Bâdîs (m. 454/1062) ; celle-ci est un chapitre de la Mukhtara' fî funûn min al-ṣuna' attribuée à al-Malik al-Muẓaffar (m. 694/1294) qui explique comment fabriquer du papier à partir d'écorc…
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
The Arabic Manuscript Tradition
peer reviewed
Arabic Manuscripts
Arranged alphabetically by subject and/or concept, the present handbook has been conceived, for convenience sake and quick reference, as an aid to students and researchers who are often puzzled or even sometimes intimidated by the ‘mysterious’ world of Arabic manuscripts and the technical language that goes with it. A companion volume to the recently published The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (2001) and its Supplement (2008), the vademecum compris…
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