Author

Contributions

  • Grassi, Vincenza. - Contributor
  • Trombetta, Augusto. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Istituto universitario orientale, Dipartimento di studi e ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi, Napoli

Language

English

Word Count

0 words, Guess

Page Count

0 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC962.4/022
  • LCCCN1153 .O63 1998

Description

The book is a corpus of early Islamic inscriptions from Khor Nubt, a valley in the desert region SW of Port Soudan. Volume I contains 96 unpublished inscriptions in Kufic characters and other 16 ones presenved in the Museum of Khartoum. Each of them has been recorded with the Arabic text, its English translation and a palaeographical and linguistic comment. Volume II contains the photos of the tombstones.

Subjects

Topics

Islamic inscriptionsIslamic inscriptions -- EgyptIslamic inscriptions -- NubiaIslamic inscriptions -- Sudan

Times

3rd-4th centuries of the Hejira/ 9th-10th A.D

Other Editions

  • The book of Khor NubtIstituto universitario orientale, Dipartimento di studi e ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi1998

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