“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?...
Die Cosmographia des Claudius Ptolemy Ptolemy (100-170) Zurich: Belser Verlag, 1983 G1005 1883 Facsimile The Rare Books Department invites you to view is most recent virtual lecture, World Without End: From Macrocosm to Microcosm. In this virtual visit to the Rare Books Department we take a literary journey through the early...
New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology: Arabic and Multilingual Texts from Early Islam, edited by Sobhi Bouderbala, Sylvie Denoix, and Matt Malczycki, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2017 Papers presented at the fifth conference of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP), held in Tunisia in 2012. The cover...
تاريخ راشد افندي تاريخ راشد قسطنطنية : ابراهيم من متفرقه كان The first Turkish printing house was established in Istanbul on December 14, 1727. The director of the press was Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745), a Hungarian convert to Islam. In 1726 Muteferrika sent a report on the efficiency of...
“Ne arbitremini quod ego uenetim ut mitterem super terram pacem; non ueni ut mitterem pacem, sed gladium (“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.)” — Matthew 10:34...