Writing Signs
The Fatimid Public Text
Overview
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.
| ISBN | 9780520208018 |
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| Category | N/A |
| Call number | P2113 E3 B54X 1998 |
| Physical description | xvi, 214 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Edition year | 1998 |
| Bibliographical references? | No |
| Publisher name | University Of California Press |
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| Publication year | 1998 |
| Place of publication | Berkeley |
| Language | English |
| Is series? | No |
